TEST 1

Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.

1.

a. establish

b. educate

c. regional

d. operate

2.

a. labor

b. country

c. promote

d. women

3.

a. represent

b. intensive

c. domestic

d. employment

4.

a. minister

b. dependent

c. encourage

d. agreement

5.

a. social

b. proportion

c. industry

d. easily

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence,

substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original

one.

6.

More and more women have become _______ and do research on many

fields as men do.

a. science

b. scientific

c. scientifically

d. scientists

7.

It is __ that changes women's lives and the perception of women's roles.

a. educate

b. education

c. educational

d. educated

8.

They are designing a new program to help businesswomen with an

attempt to promote _______ growth.

a. employ

b. employer

c. employee

d. employment

9.

UNESCO was established to encourage _______ among nations in the

areas of education, science, culture, and communication.

a. employment

b. collaboration

c. workforce d. independence

10.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO), was established in 1946.

a. set up

b. taken off

c. put away

d. run up

11.

More and more women are now joining the paid labor force worldwide.

a. putting away from

b. keeping up with

c. taking part in

d. making room for

12.

UNESCO hopes to encourage universal respect for justice, laws, human

_______, and fundamental freedoms.

a. rights

b. projects

c. programs

d. protests

13.

UNESCO has its _______ in Paris, France, and operates educational,

scientific, and cultural programs and exchanges from 60 field offices

worldwide.

a. shelters

b. houses

c. homes

d. headquarters

14.

UNESCO has international cooperation agreements to secure the world's

cultural and natural heritage and to _______ human rights.

a. collaborate

b. exchange

c. preserve

d. remain

15.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO) is a specialized _______ of the United Nations established

on November 16, 1945.

a. office

b. agency

c. company

d. enterprise

16.

Women's rights have given them an _______ to pursue high schooling

and well-paid career.

a. agency

b. employment

c. access

d. economy

17.

About 1.3 billion people live in absolute poverty on_______ income of

less than one US dollar a day. 70% of these people are women.

a. a

b. an

c. the

d. Ø

18.

Women's rights became _______ important issue in the English

speaking world.

a. a

b. an

c. the

d. Ø

19.

____ the office staff learned about Jones's promotion, they threw her a party.

a. Before

b. When

c. By the time

d. Since

20.

John has not phoned us _______ he left the city.

a. after

b. until

c. since

d. as

21.

David was crossing the street _______ a truck turned round at the corner

and nearly hit him.

a. by the time

b. as far as

c. till

d. when

22.

As soon as Mary _______, she _______ to her hometown.

a. graduates / will return

b. will graduate / returns

c. will be graduating / has returned

d. graduated / had returned

23.

Stay here _______.

a. since I came back

b. until I come back

c. when I will come back

d. as soon as I was coming back

24.

I _______ all the preparations before you _______ home tonight.

a. have made / will have come

b. am making / came

c. will make I will come

d. will have made / come

25.

Don't be so childish. It is time you _______ up.

a. did

b. went

c. grew

d. brought

26.

Arotmd100millionchildren have no access to primary education, and girls

_______ up 60%.

a. make

b. put

c. take

d. go

27.

Women bear more than half of all work done.

a. give up

b. put away

c. keep on

d. take up

28.

The number of women living in poverty has risen by 50% since 1970, the

number of men by 30%.

a. stayed on

b. gone up

c. kept away

d. cooled off

29.

One study found that men's contribution _______ housework has

doubled over the past four decades.

a. on

b. to

c. with

d. for

30.

Men have tripled the time they spend caring _______ their children at the

present time.

a. for

b. against

c. on

d. with

Error Identification.

31.

Although men may know more about diapering babies and vacuuming

A B

floors than his father did, but women are still doing most of housework

C (women)

and child

rearing

D

32.

When

men and women are asked who is spending long hours cleaning

A B

and tidy up, women are still far ahead of men.

C (tidying) D

33.

In 2006, 87.9 per cent of men said they shared housework from their

A B C (with)

wives, up from 84.4 per cent in 1996.

D

34.

The proportion of women spend 30 hours a week or more on unpaid