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- Exam: PET-O
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READING - Part 5, Exam 2
Instructions
For questions 1 - 10, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
Choose the correct answer, drag it and drop it, or type the corresponding letter into the corresponding box.
The pass mark for this exam is 60% or over.
The recommended time for this exam is 10 minutes or under.
Example:
- (0) :
- A) one
- B) THE
- C) a
- D) an
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Women and Science
It is difficult to understand why, but women and science are not automatically associated with each other, even though (0) first woman scientist was (1) in Alexandria, in Egypt, in 370 A.D. Her name was Hypatia, and her father, who was the director of Alexandria's University, (2) sure his daughter had the best education available. It was not normal, at this time, for women to have (3) to study, and after studying in Athens and Rome, she returned to Alexandria (4) she taught mathematics. She became famous (5) her knowledge of new ideas, and wrote wrote several important mathematical works, (6) no copies of her books have survived. Hypatia was very interested in technology and (7) several scientific tools to help with her work, but this story has an unhappy ending. Many rulers of that (8) were afraid of science, and (9) connected with it was in danger. As a consequence, her life was at risk and one day in March 415, she (10) attacked in the street and killed.
| (0) | A) one | B) the | C) a | D) an |
| (1) | A) begun | B) born | C) developed | D) grown |
| (2) | A) could | B) made | C) said | D) put |
| (3) | A) classes | B) customs | C) opportunities | D) teachers |
| (4) | A) where | B) how | C) there | D) which |
| (5) | A) from | B) by | C) for | D) in |
| (6) | A) because | B) but | C) or | D) as |
| (7) | A) did | B) experimented | C) invented | D) learnt |
| (8) | A) day | B) period | C) year | D) time |
| (9) | A) anyone | B) nobody | C) all | D) something |
| (10) | A) was | B) had | C) has | D) is |