Questions 6-14
Read Reading Passage 1 and from the list of headings below, select the best
heading for each paragraph A-I. Write the appropriate number i-ix, in the spaces
numbered 6-14 on the answer sheet. Use each heading ONCE only.
6.
Heading
for Paragraph A
7.
Heading for Paragraph B
8.
Heading for Paragraph C
9.
Heading for Paragraph D
10. Heading for Paragraph E
1 1 . Heading for Paragraph F
12. Heading for Paragraph G
13. Heading for Paragraph H
14. Heading for Paragraph I
List of headings
i
Exact cause of heart attacks
ii
The safest day
iii Breathless, sweaty and crushed
iv Reducing heart attack hazard
V
High-risk Monday
vi Mondays: riskier than food and way of life
vii Jobless but safer
viii Elderly also at risk
ix Bodily adaptations
Question 15
Reading Passage 1 is untitled. Select the best title for the entire passage from the
choices A-D below. Write your answer in space numbered 15 on the answer
sheet.
A Reduce your chance of having a heart attack
B
Warning: Mondays are bad for your heart
C
The overweight and smokers risk heart attacks
D Happy and healthy
QUESTIONS 16-28
You
are advised to spend about 25 minutes on Questions 16-28 which refer to
Reading
Passage 2 below
READING PASSAGE 2
Domestic Division of Labour
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to do exactly half the breadwinning and a
Work within the family context
takes a variety
woman to do exactly half the child rearing
of forms In many Western households in the
1990s, it may include tasks such as caring for
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members of the family, contributing to the
The collaborative style is a compromise between
household finances, maintaining the house,
the two extremes of traditional and egalitarian
interacting with km and establishing and
In these families, partners can specialise in
sustaining community relationships As a way
household activities and the inclination is
of fostering domestic harmony and creating a
towards doing what one is expert at or prefers
manageable routine, some couples choose
one of Typically, a woman may do all the cleaning while
three different styles of household role division
a man may do all the cooking because they
traditional, egalitarian or collaborative
choose to do so It does not follow patriarchal
prescription where a father always has foremost
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family authority and where the mother's domain
Most people who fit the traditional pattern are
is centred around the children and the household
characteristically men and women who are
It is guided by personal interest rather than social
conventionally married, or have been living
convention As such, decisions
may be deferred
together as a couple for some time The man and to the one who is the specialist in the particular
woman have totally separate spheres of influence area In some cases, couples may reverse their
and responsibility For instance, the husband or
selected roles and the woman may become the
male partner is usually the chief decision maker
main breadwinner, while the man may in turn
and the major financial provider He brings in
be the primary child care-giver
the bulk of money and has the final say over
major household purchases and important
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financial transactions The wife or female partner
Traditional, egalitarian and collaborative styles
engages in child care and household
are viewed by some as being dependent on
management, of which the latter also includes
female and male gender-role attitudes, both of
maintaining contact with relatives and family
self and partner In other words, personality
members who may not live under the same roof
differences are said to determine whether men
and women adopt one division of labour style
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in preference to another Femininity, or female
In ideal situations, an egalitarian style is typified gender-role stereotypes are commonly associated
by an equal interchange
in household tasks for
with the emotional, nurturing qualities usually
example, one partner does the dishes for one
ascribed to a woman, while masculinity, or a male
week, while the other cooks Then, the roles are
gender-role stereotype is seen in the context of
reversed for the next week As an alternative,
risk-taking, assertiveness and independence —
individual jobs may be divided equally, so that
usually attributed to men
one partner handles half of the
household tasks
and the other partner takes on the remaining
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equal proportion However, this 50/50 scenario
An opposing view sees the three family division
does not usually result in a permanent
of labour styles as a reflection of the progressive
arrangement, some specialisation does tend to
changes couples make in response to changing
creep in Human beings are not machines to be
life situations, rather than being an aspect of
switched on and off at precise moments, nor is
personality Essentially, adult women and men
society organised in such a way as to allow a man modify their behaviour within the context of
