The article mentions the following gaps between male and female in education over rich countries except that______.
A. less females receive PhD degrees than males
B. female scholars are promoted more slowly than their male colleagues
C. men and woman are not equally paid for the same job
D. women tend to focus on majors with less appealing payment prospects
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The word "impediment"(Para. 3)is closest in meaning to______.
A. impetus
B. confession
C. obstruction
D. momentum
What does the author mean by saying that"the internet industry has come of age"(Para. 3)?
A. The internet industry has declined from its hey day.
B. The internet industry has become out of date.
C. The internet industry has come into maturity.
D. The bubble in internet industry has burst.
It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that______.
A. the policies made by the government always fail to take most people"s interests into account
B. some generous social welfare programs may exert an unwanted negative effect on the efforts to boost employment rate
C. married people are usually subject to subtle forms of social inequality
D. the government should stop granting unemployment insurance to those unemployed after a certain period of time
In Paragraphs 1 and 2, the author is trying to illustrate that______.
A. the rise in oil price doesn"t squeeze Americans as hard as they have claimed
B. the oil expenditure only accounts for a small percentage of Americans" overall spending
C. the role played by oil price in correcting consumption habits is less than trivial
D. despite oil price rise, there is no sign that Americans will shift from cars to less fuel-consuming transportation means