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Part one Warming up You're going to hear some sentences which can give you a picture of the changes in women's status in America over the years. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with what you hear. 1. ________________ on behalf of women's rights began in the mid ________________, When both by law and by custom, women were considered _______________. 2. In ________________ important changes occurred in the ________________ in America as a result of World War I. 3. In ________________, after World War I, American women gained the right to ________________. 4. During ________________ II, large numbers of women ________________ to do the jobs of the men who had been drafted into ________________. 5. Today , women make up ________________ of the ________________ professional ________________ in the US, and they make up ________________ of the airline pilots and ________________. 6. The Small Business Administration predicts that women will own nearly ________________ (others say half) of ________________ in the US by the year 2000. 7. From ________________ to ________________, the number of business men and women ________________ ---- increased ________________, overall, but during that period , the number of female entrepreneurs grew _______________. 8. In ________________ in the US, only ________________ of the state ________________ were women. By ________________, this number had grown by ________________, and ________________ of state legislators were women. 9. Today, only ________________ of American families have the ________________ and the mother who ________________ to take care of the children. 10. The rate of women's participation in the ________________ rose from ________________ in 1940 to ________________ in 1985.