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Exercise: Multiple Choice Cloze Open Cloze Word Formation Gapped Sentences Keyword Transformation
CAE Mulitlple Choice Cloze: Women's Rights
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet below.
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Over the last fifty years in Britain, many of the (0) have come down that once prevented women from (1) positions of power and influence in our society. Women now (2) senior posts in the government, in business, and in industry and are just as likely to be found in manual (3) jobs as they are in nursing and childcare. In many UK families, women are the main (4) and even the most conservative of professions have been forced to adapt their outdated working (5) in favour of a more level playing field. Women employees are no longer seen as the (6) they once were considered and some might say that the (7) of the sexes has finally been won.
But there is one area of British life that has been more resistant to change and it is one, possibly so obvious that somehow it has managed to fly under everybody's (8) For women with a(n) (9) for contact sports, it must come as something of a (10) to discover that at no time will they be able to fight alongside men in the (11) of England's world-famous football team. Although an estimated quarter of a million women participate regularly in women's soccer events, the current (12) is still one of male-female segregation with nobody seeming to take seriously the idea of a mixed national team.
But there is one area of British life that has been more resistant to change and it is one, possibly so obvious that somehow it has managed to fly under everybody's (8) For women with a(n) (9) for contact sports, it must come as something of a (10) to discover that at no time will they be able to fight alongside men in the (11) of England's world-famous football team. Although an estimated quarter of a million women participate regularly in women's soccer events, the current (12) is still one of male-female segregation with nobody seeming to take seriously the idea of a mixed national team.