The days of old women doing nothing but cooking big meals are gone. Now they can join the Red Hat Society (红帽会)—a group holding the (1) that old women should have fun.
(2) men have long spent their old age fishing and playing, women have (3) seemed to become invisible (看不见的)as they (4) old. "My grandmothers didn’t do anything (5) keep house and serve everybody, "said Cornette. But the women now turning 50 didn’t agree to their (6) way of being young and are now (7) a new way of growing old. That’s (8) the Red Hat Society wants to do.
"This is something just for me, "Cornette (9) . "We don’t do anything, really. (10) we do is to have fun.
The days of old women doing nothing but cooking big meals are gone. Now they can join the Red Hat Society (红帽会)—a group holding the (1) that old women should have fun.
(2) men have long spent their old age fishing and playing, women have (3) seemed to become invisible (看不见的)as they (4) old. "My grandmothers didn’t do anything (5) keep house and serve everybody, "said Cornette. But the women now turning 50 didn’t agree to their (6) way of being young and are now (7) a new way of growing old. That’s (8) the Red Hat Society wants to do.
"This is something just for me, "Cornette (9) . "We don’t do anything, really. (10) we do is to have fun.
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society--a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
"My grandmothers didn’ t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
A. one branch of an organization
B. a written agreement of a club
C. one part of a collection of poems
D. a period in a society’ s history
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