Section B Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A ) , B ) , C) and D ) .You should decide which is the correct answer. During the 20th century there was a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle 20s, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was 15, the mother would have been in her early 50s and would expect to live a further 20 years, during which chance and health made it unusual for them to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be 15 when she is 35 and can be expected to live another 35 years and is likely to take paid work until 60. This important change in women's life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is 16, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full- or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life. 16. We are told that in a family about 1900 ________. A) few children died before they were five B) seven or eight children lived to be more than five C) the youngest child would be 15 D) four or five children died before the age of five 17. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________. A) is still young when her children are old enough to look after themselves B) does not like children herself C) needn't worry about food for her children D) can be free from family duties when she reaches 60 18. Many girls are now likely to ________. A) give up their jobs for good after they are married B) leave school as soon as they can C) marry so that they can get a job D) continue working until they are going to have a baby 19. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________. A) stay at home after leaving school B) marry men younger than themselves C) start working again later in life D) marry while still at school 20. Now a husband probably ________. A) plays a greater part in looking after the children B) helps his wife by doing most of the housework C) feels dissatisfied with his part in the family D) takes a part-time job so that he can help in the home