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Society has changed in many ways since the (1)............... of computers, and people’s lives at home and at the office have been (2)................ Most people are working for fewer hours per week than they used to, and manufacturers and advertising agencies are becoming much more interested in how people spend this extra leisure time. One recent report stated that, (3)............... the number of hobbies had not increased, each hobby had become much more specialized.
A second finding is that nowadays, many managers would (4)............... spend time with their families than stay late in the office every day. Home life is seen (5)............... as important as working. Some companies now make managers take their annual holidays (6)............... they don’t want to, because this leads to quite an improvement in their (7)............... if they have some rest.
(8)............... these changes, some people are working harder than (9)................ The standard of exams is getting higher, and increased competition is making it harder to get into university than it was 20 years ago. Schoolchildren and students are now having to work (10)............... hard that in many cases they work longer hours than their parents.