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Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abor
Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abor
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Are women really advancing? In Africa, HIV/AIDS has set them back, while in India, pregnant women (1)_____ prefer boys they abort half a million females a year. And in Britain, which saw a (2)_____ female prime minister during the 1980s, a report by the nation’s Equal Opportunities Commission says gender equality in public life is "decades away". (3)_____ about 10% of senior positions in large companies and law enforcement are held by women, while the (4)_____ for women in Parliament is so slow that equality may (5)_____ a couple centuries.
In Britain, as in America, there’s a (6)_____ that discrimination plays (7)_____ of a role in women’s progress in public life as more women stay in favor of motherhood (8)_____ careers in what’s called "choice feminism". These "choices", however, are often (9)_____.by the high cost of day care or its unavailability.
In Japan, (10)_____ discrimination against women still remains strong, (11)_____ a 1985 law against it. But now that nation, with its low birth rate, faces a labor (12)_____ as it ages rapidly, and the government is (13)_____ new measures to encourage mothers to return to work after childbirth. The new measures (14)_____ more work flexibility for such returning workers, (15)_____ day care, and support women entrepreneurs.
The Arab world has only recently begun to recognize the untapped potential of women as leaders. Iraq’s new Constitution required every (16)_____ candidate in the recent election to be a woman and that its parliament be 25 percent female. (17)_____ the charter also gives a (18)_____ role to Islam in writing new laws.
(19)_____ many measures, from politics to poverty, women still have a long way to go toward equality and (20)_____.
选项
A、improvement
B、enlargement
C、enlightenment
D、enhancement
答案
D
解析
词汇辨析题。结合全文,女权运动的目标是提高妇女地位,本题选enhancement,意为"增进,增加"。improvement意为"改进,进步";enlargement意为"放大";enlightenment意为"启迪,教化"。
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考研英语一
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