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Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892. Strangely enough she had a very happy life as a child. She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five. Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite.
In 1896 the family moved to Chicago. Three years later they moved back to St. Louis where Agnes spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was an excellent student of mathematics. She also was quite skillful as a painter.
It was when Agnes went off to college that she first learned that women were not treated as equals. She didn’t like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating from college she tried to get a job in her major field—physics. She soon found it was almost impossible for a woman.
Agnes spent a full year looking for a job. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writing letters of anger to various newspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He specially liked her style. He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties that women had in finding a job. And there she began her great fight for equal rights for women.

Where did Agnes spend her childhood?

A.Missouri. B.Chicago. C.New York. D.St. Louis and Chicago.


At school, Agnes was good at      .

A.physics and painting B.maths and painting
C.writing and maths D.physics and writing


What happened in Agnes’s life when she was in college?

A.She learned to accept the fact that men and women were unequal.
B.She learned that it was impossible for a woman to be a scientist.
C.She came to know of the inequality between men and women.
D.She developed her personal way of writing.
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During the trip, Jeff Gardner______.

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The first daily newspaper in English started in _________.

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