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Directions In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines (36) to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they (37) us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been (38) by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time--the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome-but (39) the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the (40) to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal, computers or filling our heads with useless (41) from the Intemet. Technology apart, the Internet points the way to a second reason why we feel so time-pressed: the information explosion. There is another reason for our increased time (42) levels: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be (43) Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: (44) . So we suffer from what Wilson calls (45) In fact, not everyone is overstressed. It is a convenient shorthand to say we are all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to half the population. (46)
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In addition to milk fat, non-fat milk solids, sugar, and air, ice cream also contains stabilizers and emulsifiers.
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