Topic 6: Gender equality

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Câu 1:

The right to vote is called ‘suffrage’ and the English women who fought (1) ____ and won that right were called “suffragettes”.

A. with

B. for 
C. against
D. to
Câu 2:
Members of the WSPU went to the Prime Minister to (2) ____ suffrage, but he told them to “be patient”.

A. demand

B. ask
C. want
D. raise
Câu 3:
The suffragettes were not (3) ____.

A. satisfaction

B. satisfactory
C. satisfy
D. satisfied
Câu 4:
In 1908, two suffragettes (4) ____ themselves to the fence outside the Prime Minister’s front door!
A. trained
B. changed
C. chained
D. charged
Câu 5:

Women were (5) ____ given that right in January, 1918.

A. finally
B. at last
C. at the end
D. initially
Câu 6:
In the 1980s feminism became less popular in the US and there was less (1) ____ in solving the remaining problems, such as the fact that most women still earn much less than men.
A. concern
B. interest
C. worry 
D. care
Câu 7:
One of the biggest discrimination is in (2) ____ people think.

A. what

B. which
C. that
D. how
Câu 8:
Feminism has brought (3) ____ many changes in the English language.

A. about

B. in 
C. up
D. to
Câu 9:
Many words for job titles that included ‘man’ have been replaced, for example ‘police officer’ is used (4) ____ of policeman’ and ‘chair’ or ‘chairperson’ for ‘chairman’.
A. in terms
B. instead
C. on behalf
D. in position
Câu 10:

The title Ms is used for women instead of ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’, since, like ’Mr, it does not show (5) ____ a person is married or not.

A. either
B. neither
C. whether 
D. rather
Câu 11:
(1) ____, at the current time, 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15-49 have reported experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period

A. Frankly

B. Obviously
C. Unfortunately  
D. Luckily
Câu 12:
49 countries currently have no laws (2) ____ women from domestic violence.
A. protecting 
B. watching
C. caring
D. looking
Câu 13:

Progress is occurring regarding harmful practices such as child marriage and FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), which has declined by 30% in the past decade, but there is still much work to be (3) ____ to completely eliminate such practices.

A. made

B. got 
C. had
D. done
Câu 14:
Providing women and girls with equal (4) ____ to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.
A. course
B. key
C. access
D. connection
Câu 15:

Implementing new legal frameworks regarding female equality in the workplace and the eradication of harmful practices (5) ____ at women is crucial to ending the gender-based discrimination prevalent in many countries around the world.

A. target
B. to target 
C. targeting
D. targeted
Câu 16:

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

A. Education empowering gender equality.  
B. Feminism must be at the heart of everything.
C. No talk on gender equality in the youth circle.
D. How are we doing on gender equality?
Câu 17:

According to paragraph 1, what is NOT mentioned about the findings of Women in the Workplace?

A. 600 of corporates situated in the US have been investigated by Women in the Workplace.
B. Two key initiates are included in the report as factors speeding gender equality.
C. Women in the Workplace has been churning out reports every year since 2015.
D. Women in the Workplace interviews over 20 million people per annum.
Câu 18:

According to paragraph 2, what can be concluded from the provided statistics?

A. Employers succeed in reducing the chances for losing promising female talent.
B. We are getting mixed results from the job of accelerating gender equality.
C. Women have always outperformed men academically.
D. Women are generally under-sponsored and over-mentored.
Câu 19:

The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

A. ladder 
B. figure 
C. C-suite
D. role
Câu 20:

The word “line” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. edge  
B. thread 
C. support
D. core
Câu 21:

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

A. What was the importance of women in the society like before?
B. The global role of women in developing countries.
C. Remnants of patriarchal attitudes towards women in modern age.
D. Less gender roles is an unpopular view in society perception.
Câu 22:

The word “stereotypes” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. bromides 
B. proverbs
C. clichés  
D. motifs
Câu 23:

The word “they” in paragraph 1 refers to _______.

A. nurses
B. women
C. men
D. teachers
Câu 24:

According to paragraph 2, which statement is NOT how the people of the past view the behaviours of “flappers”?

A. They considered such actions as unconventional and sweeping revolutionary.
B. They regarded those women’s behaviours as too masculine for their supposed gender.
C. They deemed the manners of rebellious women as abnormal and inappropriate.
D. They reckoned the movement among the woman at that time as brilliant.
Câu 25:

What is the general tone of the whole passage?

A. Technical
B. Introspective  
C. Contemptuous
D. Commiserating
Câu 26:

It is stated in the passage that in an average family about 1950_____.

A. many children died before they lived to more than five
B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five
C. the youngest child would be fifteen
D. four or five children died when they were five
Câu 27:

The word “which" in the first paragraph refers to _______.

A. twenty years  
B. custom 
  C. opportunities 
D. health
Câu 28:

What does the word "lightened" in the first paragraph probably means________.

A. brighter
B. less heavy
C. harder
D. more fun
Câu 29:

Nowadays, a husband tends to___________.

A. play a greater part in looking after the children
B. help his wife by doing much of the housework
C. feel dissatisfied with his role in the family
D. take a part-time job so that he can help in the home
Câu 30:

What is the main idea of this passage?

A. The marriage of women: past and present.

B. Women and their jobs.

C. The social changes in the lives of women.
D. Women’s role in family life.
Câu 31:

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The significance of gender equality.
B. The weight of women in entrepreneurship.
C. Empowerment through feminism in pop culture.
D. Women’s changing role in society.
Câu 32:

The word “spheres” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. walks  
B. bubbles
C. provinces 
D. disciplines
Câu 33:

According to paragraph 2, what is NOT mentioned as one of the forces powering the rise of women?

A. Switch between domestic and social functions
B. Insatiate human being greed.
C. Increased attention to gender equality.  
D. Technological advancement.
Câu 34:

The word “linear” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. candid  
B. straightforward  
C. winding
D. symmetrical
Câu 35:

The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to _____.

A. level 
B. world
C. formula
D. intervention
Câu 36:

According to paragraph 4, what conclusion can be drawn from the comparison and contrast between male and female?

A. Women and men claim complementary roles rather than expressing opposite sexes.
B. Some of the gender differences are in favor of women and some in favor of men.
C. Women are endowed with a bigger capability for social relationship than men.
D. Social learning and cultural values play pivotal part in determining gender differences.
Câu 37:

Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?

A. Women are generally more myopic than men in facing and countering challenges.
B. One of next position of the US congressman will be held by the “weaker sex”.
C. Accountability, solidity and volatility are the typical traits of a woman.
D. While women are versatile multi-taskers, men are single-minded uni-taskers.
Câu 38:

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. Since long ago, gender roles are a guideline of societal expectations placed on nuclear families.
B. Women fought the hardest to secure changes that would ensure them a better quality of life.
C. Women integrate seamlessly into the hyper-connected world due to their qualities and characteristics.
D. Women hold domestic power yet very limited social power and no political power at all.
Câu 39:

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

A. Gender equality is not a “women’s issue”.
B. Shifting from one gender sphere to another.
C. How to effortlessly tackle gender inequality.
D. Gender equality and women empowerment.
Câu 40:

According to paragraph 1, how is the current situation of gender equality movement?

A. There are many men who are proud feminists and dedicated activists.
B. It is just treading water for a long time since the beginning of movement.
C. The quantitative differences have yet turned into qualitative change.
D. The recent evidences displays a hint of retrogressing development.
Câu 41:

The word “uptake” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. consumption
B. utilisation
C. ceremony
D. manipulation
Câu 42:

According to paragraph 3, which characteristic of gender movement acts as an incentive for male involvement?

A. One gender’s gain or loss is exactly balanced by the loss or gain of the other.
B. The outcome is beneficial for both parties – genders – involved in the process.
C. It is initially tough and dire but becomes smooth as they progress.
D. It is practically a dead-end which can instigate the male’s competitiveness.
Câu 43:

The word “pronounced” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. faint  
B. noticeable
C. expressive
D. thick
Câu 44:

The word “them” in paragraph 4 refers to _____.

A. links
B. partners 
C. men 
D. women
Câu 45:

Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?

A. “Daddy quota” is the scheme drafted by the Japanese employers.
B. There are still voices claiming the rigidly win-or-lose nature of gender movement.
C. There are already as many women as men in the corridors of power.
D. Every person concur with the idea that paternal life and work can go hand in hand
Câu 46:

What does the writer want to imply?

A. Gender equality and women’s empowerment do not mean that men and women become the same.
B. Progress on gender equality is picking up and we are about to achieve a gender-equal world.

C. Women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world.

D. To make equality a reality we need to draw more male feminists into the gender conversation.
Câu 47:

Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

A. The campaign of the “pink-tax”.

B. The price discrepancies between male and female versions.

C. The power of marketing in our lives.
D. The battle over the gender price gap.
Câu 48:

What does pink-tax exactly mention in the passage?

A. tax for women
B. women are being charged more than men for the same products
C. men are being charged more than women for the same products
D. women are being charged more than men for the different kinds of products
Câu 49:

After comparing the prices of 800 products with male and female versions, the New York Department of Consumer Affairs _______________ .

A. did nothing
B. drew a conclusion that versions for females seemed to be more expensive than for males
C. supported for women’s right
D. continued to control for quality
Câu 50:

The word “rectified” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to ________?

A. worsen  
B. spoiled
C. fixed 
D. broadened
Câu 51:

What does the phrase “the latter example” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

A. a flowery print 
B. Wise’s example
C. another retailer 
D. a pirate
Câu 52:

The word scrutinise is closest in meaning to?

A. examine
B. ignore
C. glance  
D. retry
Câu 53:

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Wise’s statements?

A. Women pay more for clothes, beauty products, and toys than men.

B. Women have been getting in touch with many price discrepancies from lots of companies.

C. Different versions of things could have different production costs even if appearing fairly similar.
D. None of the above.
Câu 54:

What of the following most accurately reflects the author’s imply in the last paragraph?

A. The campaign succeed
B. The price for the same products will change to guarantee the gender quality
C. People will change their mind about gender quality
D. It should not be balance in the price of the same product between men and women
Câu 55:

Which of the following could be the main topic of the passage?

A. Women actually do govern differently.
B. The differences between a male and female politician.
C. The evidence to proves women are better politicians.
D. The contribution of women in the government.
Câu 56:

The word “bipartisan” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ______________.

A. working for two political parties simultaneously.
B. involving in two political parties that usually oppose each other’s policies.
C. supporting the policies of two different political parties.
D. contributing to the development of two political parties of different countries.
Câu 57:

What does the word “their” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A. women’s
B. bills’
C. men’s 
D. Congress’s
Câu 58:

According to the passage, as a worker and a mother, women tried to address many issues, EXCEPT ____________.

A. the care for children in the innovation of welfare
B. the rules to protect women from sexual harassment
C. the involvement of women in medical trials
D. the investment in reducing poverty for women
Câu 59:

The word “inclined” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____________.

A. disposed  
B. unlikely
C. averse
D. obliged
Câu 60:

Which of the following is TRUE in comparison between male and female politicians?

A. Men often tried to solve the problems related to the liberties of citizens.
B. Men tend to support military’s expense or violence.
C. Cultivation was one of the concerns of women, not men.
D. Both men and women spent much time on discussing social welfare.
Câu 61:

According to the last paragraph, what does the author imply about female leaders?

A. They are unlikely to compromise in dealing with conflicts.
B. They often have tendency to struggle in harmony.
C. They are under much pressure to overcome prejudice of women as weak.
D. They govern the countries as well as men do.
Câu 62:

It can be inferred from the passage that _____________.

A. men and women do not share the principles in governing the countries.
B. women often care more about issues related to humans and their lives.
C. women are not supported to become an executive leader.
  D. men are more dominant than women in governing a country.