As working women continue to receive better and better wages, housewives still work at home without receiving pay – checks. Should a woman who works at home, doing the housework and caring for children, be paid for her service? In a 1986 study at Cornell University, sociologists found that the value of the services of a housewife averaged $ 11,600 a year. This rate was based on a family composed of a husband, wife, and three young children. The $ 11,600 is what the husband would have to pay if he hired others to take over his wife’s household chores. The researchers concluded that it would be fair for husbands to pay wives according to federal guidelines for minimum wages.

Another plan for rewarding women who work at home has been suggested by a former Secretary of Health and Human Services. He says that full-time housewives should be allowed to pay social security taxes, with their employers contributing part of the payment. He feels that the present system is unfair. He said, “ If you stay at home and raise a family, nobody will give you credit for it.”

What is NOT true about the passage?

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• The word “captures” in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.

• The word “mechanisms” in paragraph 1 is most likely ________.

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• What form of street lighting was used in London when link boys used to work there?

•  The word “exert” in bold in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ................

• The word “elaborate” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ...........

• Who opposed the bill that was introduced in the House of Commons in the early 1900s?

• According to the passage, Porter’s Father was ___________.

• Why does the author believe that the Mandans were skilled farmers?

• The word "means" in the passage most closely means ........

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• The word “gloomy” in the passage is closest in meaning to .............

• Which of the following is the author‟s main point?

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• The underlined word “demise” is closest in meaning to .............

• Man can hardly understand why many animals live their whole life in the desert, as .........