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Book 4 Unit 1Section A Reading Comprehension (Skimming and scanning)In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For Questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Employment of Women, Youth and Disabled PeopleThe Chinese Government has always been highly concerned about and placed great importance on the employment of women, youth and disabled people, providing legal guarantees for equal employment for men and women, and actively adopting preferential policies for protecting employment of the disabled. ????Guaranteeing Women’s Right to Equal Employment The Constitution of the PRC, the Labor Law of the PRC, and the Law of the PRC on Safeguarding Women’s Rights and Interests all contain special provisions for safeguarding women’s right to employment. The state protects women’s equal right with men to work, eliminates sexual discrimination in employment, adopts the principle of equal pay for equal work for both sexes, and guarantees special labor protection for women employees during menstruation, pregnancy, confinement and nursing. In May 2001, the Chinese Government promulgated The Program for the Development of Chinese Women (2001-2010), which set the goal of promoting women’s employment. With the country’s sustained, rapid economic growth, and the development of industries and trades suitable for women’s employment, the female population in employment has continuously grown, and the fields of employment for them have kept expanding. The female population in employment in China’s urban and rural areas increased from 291 million in 1990 to 337 million in 2003. Today, there are 41.56 million women employees in urban units, accounting for 38 percent of the total employees in urban units. As the Chinese Government pushes ahead with the reform of the economic system and the readjustment of the