MULTIPLE CHOICE GAP FILLING (FCE)

Is the history of the world in    need of correction?

Some historians, mostly women, argue that insufficient

1. ---------has been paid to a very important group: women.

These historians 2. ------------ history textbooks to be revised

so that they show accurately the role 3. -----------by women.

4. -----------  the history books, cavemen  5. ------------- most of the food for their

families through hunting animals. But the 6. -------------shows that 80% of the diet of

prehistoric humans was vegetarian and it was collected by females. 7.--------------,

women's efforts in fighting in wars or leading revolutions have been ignored. Textbooks

concentrate on men such as Hannibal or Che Guevara and neglect 8. ----------

women such as Théroigne de Méricourt, an opera singer who led the storming of the

Bastille in 1789, or Mariya Bochkareva, a Bolshevik who organised a well-trained and

9. ------------- successful troop of 2,000 fighting women during the Russian revolution in

1917.  Women rulers are also forgotten. Between 962 and 1582 there were at least 16

women rulers in countries  10.------------- from Italy to Angola. 1.  a- attention        b- care                  c- notice                d- study 2.  a- ask                 b- demand            c- hope                 d- want 3.  a- done              b- got                    c- had                   d- played 4.  a- According to  b- Agreeing with   c- Depending on   d- Owing to 5.  a- arranged        b- brought             c- gave                 d- provided 6.  a- evidence        b- fact                   c- proof                 d- sign 7.  a- In addition      b- In the end        c- In time              d- In other words 8.  a- Main               b- Outstanding     c- particular          d- primary 9.  a- abvsolutely     b- deeply             c- highly               d- strongly 10.a- differing          b- ranging            c- separating        d- varying