Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each of the blanks According to a magazine article I read recently, we (1)_____ live in an age of increasing leisure. Not only are more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure relatively (2)________ but the working week is becoming shorter and the opportunities for leisure are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to mention the fact that people (3)_______ to spend less ...

Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each of the blanks

According to a magazine article I read recently, we (1)_____ live in an age of increasing leisure. Not only are more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure relatively (2)________ but the working week is becoming shorter and the opportunities for leisure are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to mention the fact that people (3)_______ to spend less time traveling to work or may even be working from home. What I can't understand, however, is who these people are. As far as I can (4)________ the whole thing is another one of (5)_______ journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lot of retired people (6)_________ but I am not sure that all of them are dashing about learning hang- gliding or sailing single-handed (7)_________ the world. My own parents seem to (8)_______ most of their time gazing at the television. And as for the shorter working week, I wish someone (9)________ remind my company about it. I seem to be working longer and longer hours all the time. The little leisure time I have is eaten into by sitting in the traffic jams or waiting for trains to (10)_______ up at rain-swept platforms. I haven't noticed any dramatic improvements in my (11)_________ either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my pension.

According to a magazine article I read recently, we (1)_____ live in an age of increasing leisure.