[填空题]Sales rose steadily throughout the two-year period, but the increase was more dramatic in 1999.

[填空题]Computer sales rose steadily throughout the period.

[填空题]Bicycle sales hardly changed throughout the period, except for a slight fall in 1998.

[填空题]Car sales rose steadily from May to July.

[填空题]The sale hardly changed throughout the period.

[填空题]Profits hardly changed throughout the period, except for a slight increase in September.

[填空题]At first computer sales rose sharply, but then fell gradually for the rest of the period.

[填空题]Throughout the colonial period there was a marked shortage of women, which varied with the (36) and was always greatest in the frontier areas. This (37) ratio enhanced women’s status and position and (38) them to pursue different careers.
The Puritans, the religious group that (39) the early British colonies in North America, regarded (40) as a sin, and believed that life in an under-developed country made it (41) necessary that each member of the (42) perform an economic function.
Thus work for women, married or single, was not only (43) , it was regarded as a civil duty. Puritan town councils expected widows and unattached women to be self-supporting and for a long time provided poor unmarried women with parcels of land. There was no social sanction against married women working; on the contrary, (44) .
The vast majority of women worked within their homes, (45)