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综合单元测试——Level 5 Unit 4 Listening Comprehension 请根据需要填入Script： True Or False T F T T T T T F T T 请根据需要填入Script： Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will listen to a passage and it will not be written out in full for you. You will hear the passage THREE TIMES. While listening, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear. (10 points) It is often realized that women held a high place in southern 11 in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against 12 , but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wifes right to receive a tenth of all her husbands property. The wife had the right to withhold consent 13 the husband would make. And more than just a right: the documents show that she enjoyed real 14 , equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the 15 of husband and wife. The wife shared in the management of her husbands 16 but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to 17 , and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. 18 is that of Maria Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she 19 . None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miros personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, for the sake of peace. Either through dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself 20 of the family, a powerful economic position. 11. 请根据需要填入Script： 正确答案：European societies 12. 请根据需要填入Script： 正确答案：the risk of