[C] Are more capable of avoiding stress.

　　[D] Are exposed to more stress.

　　23. According to Paragraph 4, the stress women confront tends to be

　　[A] domestic and temporary.

　　[B] irregular and violent.

　　[C] durable and frequent.

　　[D] trivial and random.

　　24. The sentence “I lived from paycheck to paycheck.”(Line 6, Para. 5) shows that

　　[A] Alvarez cared about nothing but making money.

　　[B] Alvarez’s salary barely covered her household expenses.

　　[C] Alvarez got paychecks from different jobs.

　　[D] Alvarez paid practically everything by check.

　　25. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

　　[A] Strain of Stress: No Way Out?

　　[B] Responses to Stress: Gender Difference

　　[C] Stress Analysis: What Chemicals Say

　　[D] Gender Inequality: Women Under Stress

　　[第21题答案及题解页数] A 第页

　　[第22题答案及题解页数] D 第页

　　[第23题答案及题解页数] C 第页

　　[第24题答案及题解页数] B 第页

　　[第25题答案及题解页数] D 第页

　　[长难句突破]

　　Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affects the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions.