Nowadays, the prescribed roles of the man as "breadwinner" and the woman as housewife are changing（）

单项选择题Benin Mayer Alcott based the principal characters of her book Little Women on her sisters and herself（）

A. original
B. central
C. subjunctive
D. oriental

单项选择题The rigor of the winter in Russia was often described by Mogol（）

A. harshness
B. perturbation
C. dismay
D. pessimism