Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers - 1

Question: 1

The last twenty years have witnessed an explosion of growth opportunities for women in industry especially at the decision making level. Today more and more young women have a chance to walk the competitive edge and prove that their abilities are at par with, if not better than, those of their male colleagues.
However, as they are beginning to storm the traditionally male bastions of management they are finding out that the roads to success are paved with difficulties. They discover very early in their career that the battle for supremacy in corporate organizations calls into play not only the forces of power, control and dominance, but issues of gender, attitude and acceptance of women.
The first sentence of the passage implies that job opportunities

(A) for women at the managerial level have increased

(B) in the corporate sector have increased

(C) for women have increased

(D) in industry have increased

Question: 2

Which of the following phrases best reflects the meaning of 'male bastions'?

(A) careers for males

(B) management styles of males

(C) management abilities of males

(D) management areas dominated by males

Question: 3

According to the passage, women in high positions also have

(A) problems related to power and control

(B) problems related to roles of women in society

(C) some problems

(D) no problems at all