Question

In days gone by, Chinese women could not go to school. _____ this doesn' t mean they made no efforts to learn. One proof is nüshu(女书), meaning “female script”．

Nüshu is a written _____ created by women in Jiangyong county, Hunan. Hundreds of years ago, it was used and passed on _____ among women. Men could not understand those words.

Elderly women _____ nüshu to girls at home. They used it to write poems or song lyrics. They wrote it on pages, in books, on paper fans and _____ stitched(缝) it in clothing. In them they showed the feelings they were hiding from men. They also talked about difficultics in life and _____ They made it through.

But today, not many women can write nüshu anymore. Some people worry that this ancient culture will soon _____. Zhao Liming, a professor at Tsinghua University, is one of them. She works with an online education app, called Talkman. Since September, users can learn nüshu through this app.

The local government is also working hard to _____ nüshu. Some high schools in Jiangyong offer niishu courses. More young people, including boys, have started to learn this written language.

According to Zhou Youguang, a famous linguist(语言学家), nüshu helped women get freedom. They didn't have the _____ of education, so they made their own written language.

Even though nüshu is not so ______ anymore, this idea is still important today.

1.A. Or B. So C. But

2.A. poem B. song C. language

3.A. only B. really C. nearly

4.A. told B. brought C. taught

5.A. ever B. even C. still

6.A. how B. what C. when

7.A. work out B. die out C. break out

8.A. save B. learn C. write

9.A. time B. right C. money

10.A. difficult B. beautiful C. useful

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