Part IV     Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)     (25 minutes)
Section A                                                                 
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices givenin a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Pleasemark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a singleline through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more thanonce.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in theirhousehold in Britain, according to a major survey.Researchers said that in manyrelationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income，47 in a time of widespreadredundancies(裁员)．
In a  48  shift in attitudes, four out of ten women saidthat the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take  49  in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the childrenand does the  50  while their female partner works full time.
Ten percent of women admitted this role   51   had put strains on their relationship andsome said it had even led to them 52  company．
The Women and Work Survey 2010，commissioned(受……委托)by Grazia magazine，found that almost halfof full-time mothers  53  not earning their own money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the surveysaid they wanted to keep working in some way after having children.
A  54  higher number of those with childrenunder three said they would prefer to work--preferably part-time----rather thanstay at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobswhen they graduate, and working up the career  55  faster than they have ever done."
This means that there has to be more  56  between the roles of men and women in arelationship and when they have children.
A) precedence                                I) especially
B) connection                                 J) parting
C) prospect                                 K) opposite
D) slightly                                    L) chores
E) ladder                                     M) disliked
F) favored                                    N) fluidity
G) plan                                    Ｏ) significant
H) reversal

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