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the purse of the woman buying clothes in the shop.

D

3. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, that was ......................
A B

a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger
on flight STS-7 on June 18, 1983.
C D

4. The reason why she quittedto do that well-paid job was ......................
A B C
related to her demanding boss.

D
5. John Glenn had orbitedthe Earth three times during the flight ......................

A B C
10 months after Gagarin’s mission.
D

C. READING

IX Read the passage.

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) was (1) ................... of the great mystics and religious
women of the Roman Catholic church.
Her mother died in 1529, and, despite her father’s (2) ..................., Teresa entered,
probably in 1535, the Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation at Avila. After two years with her
health being collapsed, she continued for 15 years in a (3) ................... divided between a
worldly and a divine spirit. In 1555, she (4) ................... a religious awakening. In 1558,
Teresa began to consider the restoration of Carmelite life to its original observance of
austerity, which (5) ................... relaxed in the 14th and 15thcenturies. Her reform required
utter withdrawal so that the nuns could meditate on divine law and, through a prayerful life of
penance, exercise what she termed “our vocation of reparation” for the sins of mankind. In
1562, with Pope Pius IV’s authorization, she opened the first convent (St. Joseph’s) of the
Carmelite Reform. A (6) ................... of hostility came from municipal and religious
personages, especially because the convent existed without endowment, but she (7)
...................on poverty and subsistence only through public alms.
John Baptist Rossi, the Carmelite prior general from Rome, went to Avila in 1567 and
approved the reform, directing Teresa to (8) ................... more convents and to establish
monasteries. Despite frail health and great difficulties, Teresa spent the rest of her life
establishing and nurturing 16 more convents throughout Spain.

1
1 Choose the most suitable word to fill in the blank.
1. A. a B. one C. among D. both A & B
2. A. disapproval B. approval C. agreement D. opposition

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