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Passage
One
Britain
has laws to make sure that women have the same opportunities
as men in education, jobs and training. But it’s still unusual
to find women doing dirty or heavy jobs.
Nikki Honriques is a car maintenance engineer
in London. She used to be a secretary. Barty Philliphs,
a journalist with "The Observer", a Sunday newspaper, asked
her why she wanted to work with cars.
"My first reason was independence," she
said. "I also wanted to use my hands, and I like learning
about how things work. Many people prefer to have a woman
repair their cars, too."
Nikki didn’t find it easy to become a car
maintenance engineer. She went to Government Skills Centre─a
special sort of college where people can learn a new job─for
twenty weeks. "For ten weeks I was the only woman among
four hundred men, and some of them were rude to me, just
because of my sex. It was also very tiring─from 8 in the
morning to 5 at night, with only 30 minutes for lunch."
Now Nikki works free-lance─that is, she’s
self-employed, working for herself and not for a garage
or a company.
Barty Philliphs also spoke to Rose, who
works as a general builder in Sheffield, an industrial town
in the north of England. Like Nikki, Rose used to be a secretary.
"I didn’t enjoy it at all," she said. "I wanted to do more
practical work, and I wanted to be self-employed."
Rose joined a women’s building co-operative,
and she learnt her job from other people and from experience.
However, many of the women in her group have been specially
trained. Most of the jobs they do are improvements to buildings
and general repairs.
"People often say, ‘Oh, women aren’t strong
enough’, but I don’t think strength is important," said
Rose. "The important thing is to get used to doing a different
sort of work."
Rose would like more women to come into
the building industry. " Everything built at the moment
is a product of man’s world. If women become builders, they
will be able to understand the production of their houses
and their towns."
(358 words)
1.
Britain has laws to make sure that ______.( C
)
(a) women do not have to do dirty or heavy jobs
(b) women get higher pay than men from doing dirty
or heavy jobs
(c) women are equal with men in education, employment and
training
(d) women are given more opportunities to find jobs
2.
Before Nikki was able to become a car maintenance engineer,
she had to ________.(
B
)
(a) go to Government Skills Centre for a working license
(b) go to Government Skills Centre for the necessary training
(c) know if a woman engineer was really needed
(d) work for a garage or a company
3.
Rose does not like being a secretary because ________.
(
B
)
(a) the work is very heavy
(b) she wants to do more practical work
(c) her dream is to be a journalist
(d) she wants to have a good job
4.
Rose joined a women’s building co-operative and she got
her skill ________. (
C
)
(a) from a training class run by the government
(b) from a special night school run by the local council
(c) from other people and from her own experience
(d) from reading books
5.
A suitable title for the above passage might be ______.(
A
)
(a) Women in Traditionally Male-Dominated Jobs
(b) Women at Engineering Work
(c) Better Jobs for Women
(d) Women and Learning
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Passage
Two
It is estimated that some seven hundred
million people─about half the world’s adult population─are
unable to read or write, and there are probably two hundred
and fifty millions more whose level of attainment is so
slight that it can barely be qualified as literacy.
Recently the attack on illiteracy has been
stepped up. A world plan has been drawn up by a committee
of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations
Development Decade, and an international conference on the
subject has also been held. UNESCO stresses that functional
literacy is the aim. People must learn the basic skills
of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices,
newspapers, timetables, letters, price-lists, to keep simple
records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the
information gathered and to fill out forms.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia,
Africa and Central and South America. In Africa there are
at least one hundred million illiterates, comprising eighty
to eighty-five percent of the total population. In Europe
the figure is about twenty-four million, most of them in
the South, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Yugoslavia heading
the list. The United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand.
(196 words)
6.
The figure of world illiteracy is ______.
(
D
)
(a) 700 000
(b) 7 000 000
(c) 70 000 000
(d) 700 000 000
7.
If we add those who are very close to illiteracy, the number
will be ______. (
D
)
(a) 7 250 000
(b) 725 000 000
(c) 9 500 000
(d) 950 000 000
8.
It is obvious that UNESCO ______. (
B
)
(a) is a company in France
(b) is a world organization attached to the UN
(c) is a plan for combating illiteracy
(d) is part of the United Nations Development Decade
9.
A world plan mentioned in the passage aims at _______.
(
C
)
(a) training responsible citizens
(b) enforcing the demands of UNESCO
(c) helping illiterates obtain functional literacy
(d) urging Southern European countries to take the lead
in attacking illiteracy
10.
The author implies that this world plan is to ______.
(
B
)
(a) be carried out in the major areas of illiteracy like
Africa
(b) be realized in ten years
(c) be drawn up by European experts
(d) be debated at an international conference
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Passage
Three
Like many little girls, I dreamed of being
a ballet dancer. I practiced hard and at age 13, I was hired
as an apprentice by the Minnesota Dance Theatre, a little
ballet company in my hometown of Minneapolis.
I danced to fulfill a dream, and the money
came in handy. My mother was trying to raise five children
while working as a singer in a nightclub. The $50 a week
I earned dancing paid for my food, bus fare and ballet outfits.
That’s how I helped my mom─by just paying for myself. It
made me feel good. I have no doubt that responsibility leads
to self-respect.
When I was 17 I moved to Philadelphia to
study with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Three years later I
went to New York City, and eventually pursued an acting
career.
Supporting myself at an early age was the
best training for life I could possibly have received. I
still consider myself a trouper and have yet to miss a day
of work. I take more pride in the fact that I can always
be counted upon than I do in how much I earn or how well-known
I am.
(195 words)
11.
The author went to a little ballet company because _______________. (
C
)
(a) her family was poor
(b) she wanted to earn money to support herself
(c) she dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer
(d) she had no other choice
12.
The author took pride in ______.
(
D
)
(a) earning $50 a week
(b) being able to buy things she wanted
(c) feeling good
(d) helping her mom by paying for herself
13.The
author tried to help her mother out of her sense of _________. (
B
)
(a) pride
(b) responsibility
(c) family needs
(d) confidence
14.
. According to the author, her best training for life was
_________. (
A
)
(a) supporting herself at an early age
(b) working hard to become a ballet dancer
(c) acting on the stage in New York City
(d) an apprenticeship at the Minnesota Dance Theatre
15.
A
most suitable title for the passage is
_______. ( D
)
(a) A Dream in My Childhood
(b) Hard Life of My Family
(c) My Way to Success
(d) My Best Training for Life
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