Choose the word/phrase that best fits each blank.
Women are only asking to be given equal_________to that of men.
A.state
B.status
C.situation
D.ideas

Choose the word/phrase that best fits each blank.
The_________for women’s rights began in the 18­th century.
A.battle
B.war
C.struggle
D.fight

Choose the word/phrase that best fits each blank.
People used to consider women to be better_________ for childbearing and homemaking.
A.regarded
B.suited
C.understood
D.kept

Choose the word/phrase that best fits each blank.
Nowadays, women have gained significant legal_________.
A.wrongs
B.rights
C.responsibilities
D.works

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
A.rear
B.bear
C.fear
D.dear

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
A.women
B.movie
C.lose
D.prove

The phrase "wither away” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to____
A.split
B.rot
C.perish
D.shrink

What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.How the principles of use and disuse change people’s concepts of themselves.
B.The way in which people change themselves to conform to fashion.
C.The changes that occur according to the principle of use and disuse.
D.The effects of the sun on the principle of use and disuse.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Rock carvings suggest that Stone Age people were hunting whales for food as early as 2,200 B.C. Such _____(41) hunting is still practised today in a number of ______(42) including the Inuit people of Greenland and North America.
Whaling became big______ (43) from the seventeenth century as the _______(44) for whale bone and whale oil rose, and the humpback and sperm whales were hunted in increasingly large numbers. ________(45) just as stocks of these species began to fall, the explosive harpoon gun was ______(46) . This weapon, together with the development of steam-powered ships, enabled the whalers to hunt the fast moving fin and blue whales.
In 1905, the whaling ______(47) moved to the waters of Antarctica. The introduction of massive factory ships enabled the whales to be processed at sea. As a result. the blue whale had ________(48) disappeared by the I95os. In 1946, the International Whaling Commission was established to maintain the declining whale populations. Quotas were set but ____(49) were often ignored and the numbers continued to fall. Hunting of many species continued until 1986 when the IWC finally responded to international________(50) and a ban on commercial whaling was introduced.
_______(49)
A.things
B.these
C.those
D.there

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings” They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They use their whole vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore when their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies. However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.
The word “this” refers to_____
A.the migration of the ancestors
B.the practice of lying on one side
C.the problem of the one eye looking downwards
D.the difficulty of the only one eye being useful