精听建议：

先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

Lesson21 Women and the IT Industry
The computer industry should offer 1 for the employment of women. Unfortunately it doesn't, both because the computer industry's managers are too stupid to employ them, and because women have been 2 by the idea that jobs involve being a slave to an inhuman computer screen.
Computing should attract women: it is clean, 3 where the best results are obtained by intelligence applied in co-operative work-groups. All large computer sites run around the clock, which provides for flexible working hours; indeed, much IT work can be done from home. Because of the pace at which the industry advances, staffs need 4 , which should make it easier for women to be retrained and re-employed if they 5 have a family.
Nor does computing have any of the entrenched working practices which might keep women out. It does not have 100 year-old demarcation lines. The workforce is expanding, not contracting. Hiring women ought to be easy.
Under the circumstances it is almost unbelievable that the number of women being taken in to the computing industry is declining.

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