四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案】第一篇：Imagine the typical work situation of the past. A traditional woman’s workplace was the home. Her occupationwas a combination of housekeeper, cook, driver, babysitter, teacher and gardener. A man’s workplace was probably ina factory or an office. Factory workers, like other blue-collar workers, probably used machinery, but some amount ofthe work was manual. Office workers, like other white-collar workers, didn’t work with machines or their hands.Instead, they dealt with ideas, numbers and people. Most of them had secretaries who typed, filed papers, andanswered phones.Technology has already caused changes in these traditional work situations, but we will see more changes in thefuture. The increasing use of robots—machines that do the jobs of human beings—will mean fewer jobs forblue-collar workers, who in the future will not need much education or skill, but their pay will be low.The use of computers will continue to create enormous changes for white-collar workers. In offices, as infactories, there will be a need for fewer people, but those people will need more skills. Secretaries, for instances, willneed to be able to use word processing and other computer packages. In addition, many office workers will be free towork in several locations—e.g., the office and the home. This will be possible because of computernetworks—groups of connected computers. Today most men and over half of all women leave the house each day togo to work, but in the future both men and women may choose to stay home with a computer and still be able toreceive a paycheck.Experts predict that shopping habits may greatly change in the future. Some people are shopping less and less instores and more and more with computers or mobile phones. Some consumers now order airline tickets, computerproducts, food, clothes and groceries, to name a few, online. These items arrive soon in the mail at their homes orworkplaces.
51. According to the passage, the occupation of traditional women is working as a ______.
(A) secretary
(B) white-collar worker
(C) blue-collar worker
(D) housewife