Question

Pick out the correct form of the verbs:


1) In the UK today, the number of women in work reached/has reached nearly

50% of the working population.

2) In the 1950s and early 1960s, very few women went/have gone out to work.

3) In those days, husbands often didn’t let/haven’t let their wives get jobs.

4) Today the situation changed/has changed a lot.

5) Inthe 1970s, new laws made/have made employers offer women and men equal

pay and conditions.

6) Several changes in the present law gave/have given women today better

conditions than before.

7) However, women’s average salaries at the moment didn’t rise/haven’t risen to

average level of men’s salaries.

8) This is partly because the biggest increase in work for women in the last 20

years was/has been in part-time jobs.

9) It is also because most of today’s women didn’t climb/haven’t climbed to higher

levels of management.


10) Most of the women didn’t try/haven’t tried to do so either. ​

Answer 1

1)has reached

2)have gone

3)didn't let

4)has changed

5)have made

6)have given

7)haven´t rise

8)has been

9)haven't climbed

10)haven't tried