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 given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
　　Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more （36） in finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.
　　Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels of（37）tend to earn less than men, but it's at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.
　　Women with low literacy are twice as（38） as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners,bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said.
　　"Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really （39） a big difference," said Kevin Miller, a（40）research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.
　　Women need to go（41） in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.
　　The42 was based on 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data （43）,and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was （44） from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.
　　Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that（45）, the institute said.

A． pattern
B . senior
C． longer
D．difficulties
E.category
F. collected
G. positions
H. available
I . conducted
J. independent
K. literacy
L. analysis
M.likely
N. further
O. makes

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