单项选择题

Are women really advancing In Africa, HIVAIDS 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) .

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWER SHEET 1.1（）

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