Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks

The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are traditional, (1) a father, mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families in the United States, there are no children. These childish couples may believe that they would not make good parents; they may want freedom from the (2) of childbearing; or, perhaps they (3) physically able to have children. Other families in the United States have one adult (4) a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a person who joins a family by marrying a father or mother Americans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States, people have the right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what type of family group they must belong to. They respect each other’s (5) regarding family groups. Families are very important to Americans.

While most American families are traditional, (1) a father, mother and one or more children

4. What does the word “its” in the last sentence refer to?

3. How many hours did the 1880 bulb last?

2. Where was Edison’s laboratory?

Read the following passage, and choose the best answer that follow.

Thomas Alva Edison was born in Ohio in 1847. As a child, he received less than a year of formal schooling, but was educated at home. His parents allowed him to set up a laboratory in their basement and his mother gave him books about chemistry and electronics. Edison credits his mother as being ‘the making’ of him.

In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights". In 1879 he created a successful incandescent light bulb. This was his hardest project – from 1877 to 1880, Edison and his assistants tried around 3000 experiments to perfect their light bulb design. By the end of 1880, Edison had produced a bulb that lasted 1500 hours. This discovery marked the beginning of commercially manufactured light bulbs and in 1880, Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Electric Light Company began marketing its new product.

5. What did her parents do?

4. How long did she travel in the space shuttle Challenger?

3. When did she become America’s first spacewoman?

2. What does she look like?

1. Who is America’s first spacewoman?