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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 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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Growing up as an Asian in Britain is much more than a question of facing discrimination and trying to find a decent job -- especially for a girl. She has to keep a delicate 47 between two cultures: her own and the British.
Seetha Crishna has written a booklet called Girls of Asian Origin in Britain. In it the girls she is most concerned with are those who are 48 different because they have gone through the British educational system and have therefore emerged with an 49 which is distinct from that of their parents.
They speak English with regional English accents, they look 50 in Western clothes, and they so not necessarily choose to work in a factory. But they are unmistakably Asian and they are still held by their Asian 51 roots. At home, Asian girl may find herself conforming
to the traditions and values of her parents, while at school she tends to 52 the attitudes and appetites of her British contemporaries.
As a result, Seetha Crishna found girls existing at two levels -- and inclined to 53 both. "But unless they can successfully accept both, they will 54 constantly from one level to the other, feeling trapped between the two – at 55 cost to their own confidence and happiness."
For teenage girls, the main 56 is to match the social life which their parents expect
them to live with that enjoyed by their schoolmates.
A cultural
F definitely
K balance
B issue
G swing
L considerable
C question
H unfit
M scarcely
D difficult
I identity
N develop
E refuse
J low
O comfortable
