Leisure time is a _______ commodity for most professors. Still, _______ manage to curl up with a good book when they have the chance.
Leisure ActivitiesAccording to a magazine I read recently, we now live in an age of increasing leisure. Not (1)____are more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure, but the working week is becoming shorter and the (2) opp____ for leisure are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to (3) m____ the fact that people tend to spend less time travelling to work or may even be working from home. What I can’t understand, (4) h____, is who these people are. As far as I can (5) t____ the whole thing is another one of those journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lot of (6)____(retire) people nowadays, but I am not sure whether all of them are dashing about learning hang-gliding or sailing singlehanded (7) r____ 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)____(will) 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 (10)____jams or waiting for trains to show up at rain-swept platforms. I haven’t noticed any dramatic improvements in my lifestyle either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my pension.
Leisure time is a _______ commodity for most professors. Still, _______ manage to curl up with a good book when they have the chance.
Leisure time is a _______ commodity for most professors. Still, _______ manage to curl up with a good book when they have the chance.