Read the passage and choose the best answers.
Until the 19th century, the denial of equal rights to women met with only occasional protest and drew little attention from most people. Because most women lacked the educational and economic resources that would enable them to challenge the prevailing social order, women generally accepted their inferior status as their only option. At this time, women shared these disadvantages with the majority of working class men, as many social, economic, and political rights were restricted to the wealthy elite . In the 19th century, as governments in Europe and North America began to draft new laws guaranteeing equality among men, significant numbers of women – and some men – began to demand that women be accorded equal rights as well.
At the same time, the Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America further divided the roles of men and women. Before the Industrial Revolution most people worked in farming or crafts-making, both of which took place in or near the home. Men and women usually divided the numerous tasks among themselves and their children. Industrialization led male workers to seek employment outside of the home in factories and other large-scale enterprises. The growing split between home and work reinforced the idea that women’s “rightful place” was in the home, while men belonged in the public world of employment and politics.
Organized efforts by women to achieve greater rights occurred in two major waves. The first wave began around the mid-19th century, when women in the United States and elsewhere campaigned to gain suffrage – that is, the right to vote. This wave lasted until the 1920s, when several countries granted women suffrage.
Why did the denial of equal rights to women draw little attention from the society until the 19th century?
A.They could not challenge the prevailing social order.
B.They did not have any other option.
C.Most women lacked the educational and economic resources.
D.All are correct.

..........(10)
A.that
B.how
C.what
D.which

What does the word “open” in the passage most closely mean?
A.unlimited                
B.enlarged                  
C.relaxed                    
D.not shut

A.occupation
B.attraction
C.disappointment
D.satisfactory

Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.Portuguese raiders burnt the island under sea.
B.Portuguese raiders burnt the settlement down for the next two centuries.
C.Thomas Stamford Raffles stood for a British company.
D.Sultan Hussein Shah alone built Singapore as a British trading post.

___________owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.
 
A.That birds   
B.A bird    
C.The bird
D.Birds

Have/ succeed/ interview/ hope/ work/ soon.
A.She’s succeeded in the interview so as to hope working soon.
B.She’s succeeded ỉn the interview so that she hopes working soon. 
C.Had succeeded in the interview, she hopes that she works soon.
D.Having succeeded in the interview, she hopes to start work soon.

Read the passage carefully, then choose the best answer for each question.
THE MAMMOTH’S TALE
Imagine finding a body that had been lost for 40,000 years . . .
The strange animal in the ice looked like it was sleeping. Ten-year-old Kostia Khudi and his brother had never seen anything like it before. But they had heard stories of the mamont. It was an imaginary animal that lived in the ice-filled blackness of the Siberian underworld.  Their father, a reindeer herder  named Yuri Khudi, went to ask a friend for advice.  But when he returned, the body had vanished.
Yuri soon found the animal's body leaning against a store in a nearby town. While he was away, his cousin had sold it to the store owner. Dogs had eaten part of the tail and ear, but it was still in "as close to perfect condition as you can imagine," says scientist Daniel Fisher. The police came to help. The body was taken by helicopter to a museum.  The animal was a baby mammoth from the Ice Age. It was female, so the scientists named it after Yuri's wife.
From Siberia, the mammoth was sent to the Netherlands and Japan. Scientists there studied it more closely. Detailed studies of her teeth and tusks showed she was just one month old when she died. Ongoing research has also shown us the sequence of events that led to her death. Lyuba fell and died near a muddy river. The mud helped keep her body frozen until she was found, 40,000 years later. Scientists hope that further studies will help explain how mammoths, like Lyuba lived. They also want to know why mammoths became extinct.
The passage is mainly about_____.
A.animals that are now extinct
B.an important discovery
C.what life was like for a mammoth named Lyuba
D.life in the Ice Age

A.believed 
B.thought 
C.considered
D.regarding

Choose the best answer to complete the following questions
To make your old clothes more fashionable, you can............... the sleeves off an old shirt or change the colour.
A.cut
B.take
C.make
D.put