Passage Two In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something so shocking as to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men. Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man’s secretary became his personal servant, in charge of remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep away people he did not wish to speak to; and, of course, typing and filing and taking short hand. Now all this may be changing again. The microchip (芯片) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical (文书的) work that secretaries did. "Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve the high-tech work--and then men will want to do it again." That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial ag
A. were less efficient and less trained than men
B. were looked down upon by men
C. would have disturbed the other office workers
D. wore stockings and were not as serious as men
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