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Amal works 45 hours a week. It takes him an hour to travel to work every day. That means he spends 10 hours commuting（通勤）each week. At home, Amal spends about 23 hours a week doing work around the house. Of course, he needs to sleep(56 hours a week) and prepare and eat meals (14 hours a week). So Amal has 20 hours of leisure. 1. __________

2. __________Obviously, watching television is a popular free-time activity in many countries. Studies show that people are watching more TV today that they did twenty years ago. That is probably because there are many more TV channels today. People can choose programs from hundreds of TV channels.

Computers are also changing the way people use their leisure time. Today people are spending more time doing things on their computers. 3. __________ In fact, some employers are finding that workers are skipping lunch to surf the Internet.

4. __________They talk on the telephone while they are commuting to work. They read work papers while they are eating. They listen to music while they are studying. 5. ___________

A． Surfing the Internet is becoming another popular free-time activity.

B． More and more, people are mixing their work time and play time.

C． What do people do in their leisure time?

D． Maybe this is why people believe that they have less free time today.

E． That is a typical amount of leisure time for someone in the United States.

资料来源： 《中学生百科英语 1》 清华大学出版社

Unit 5 Work and Leisure, lesson 5 Time off

附答案：E C A B D