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资料：In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the battle of the sexes.

If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important- and that has happened in some cases-we are as badly of as before, only in reverse. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of momism,-but we don't want to exchange it for neo-popism. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals.

There are signs that psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit-nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze men's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.

The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.

Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family.

According to the passage, we can safely conclude that______.

A.authority and democracy are very essential to a healthy family
B.authoritarianism does no good to a healthy family
C.male superiority maintains a healthy family
D.women should be treated equally to men

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答案： A

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【关键词】according to the passage; safely conclude

【主题句】第5自然段Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family. 过度的威权主义会带来不愉快的后果，无论是穿裙子还是穿裤子，平等的权利和责任的理想不仅关乎健全的民主，也关乎着健全的家庭关系。

【解析】本题的问题是“根据文章，我们可以安全地得出结论：____”。 A选项“权威和民主对于一个健全的家庭是非常重要的”；B选项“威权主义对一个健全的家庭没有好处”；C选项“男性优越感维持一个健全的家庭”；D选项“男女应该平等对待”。根据主题句可知，过度的威权主义会造成不良后果，B选项缺少“过度”的修饰限制，故错误。结合主题句，健全家庭关系关键在于平等，而非男性优越性，故C选项错误，D选项文中未体现，故A选项更符合题意。