Listening test

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LEISURE TIME IN AMERICA 
1.
 
A pair of economists have looked closely at how Americans actually spend their time. 
Mark Aguiar, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Erik Hurst, at the University of 
Chicago’s Graduate School of Business constructed four different measures of leisure. 
The narrowest includes only activities that nearly everyone considers relaxing or fun; the 
broadest counts anything that is not related to a paying job, housework or errands as 
“leisure”. No matter how the two economists slice the data, Americans seem to have 
much more free time than before. 
List of headings 
A.
 
One possible source of inaccuracies 
B.
 
Less time doing chores 
C.
 
A difference between perception and reality 
D.
 
The value of extra leisure time 
E.
 
Americans are working harder 
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Significantly more free time 
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The effect of including retirees 
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The need for a wider description of work 
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An effective system for measuring time spent 
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How Americans think about their time 

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Over the past four decades, depending on which of their measures one uses, the 
amount of time that working-age Americans are devoting to leisure activities has risen 
by 4-8 hours a week. For somebody working 40 hours a week, that is equivalent to 5-10 
weeks of extra holiday a year. Nearly every category of American has more spare time: 
single or married, with or without children, both men and women. Americans may put in 
longer hours at the office than other countries, but that is because average hours in the 
workplace in other rich countries have dropped sharply.