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  3. Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more【C6】________ in finding a well-paying job and

Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more【C6】________ in finding a well-paying job and

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问题     Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more【C6】________ 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【C7】________tend to earn less than men, but it’s at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most【C8】________.
    Women with low literacy are twice as likely 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【C9】________a big difference, " said Kevin Miller, a【C10】________research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.
    Women need to go【C11】________in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.
    The【C12】________was based on 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data【C13】________, and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was【C14】________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【C15】________, the institute said.
    [A]pattern         [B]independent   [C]makes
    [D]difficulties    [E] collected    [F] conducted
    [G] available      [H] category     [I] positions
    [J] striking       [K] literacy     [L] analysis
    [M] senior         [N] further      [O] longer
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答案J
解析 由空格前的is most可知，空格处应填入形容词，说明the wage gap。备选项中independent，available，striking，literacy，senior，further和longer都是形容词，但further和longer是形容词的比较级形式，可排除；senior无比较级和最高级形式，却含有比较的含义，意为“资深的；年长的”，可排除。对比剩余选项，只有striking “引人注目的，显著的”语义最为恰当，意为 “……在文化水平最低的人群中，男女收入差距最显著。”即“男女收入差距最大”，故J为正确答案。
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