Fill in the Blanks NTE B - UNIT 8.2 - TASK 8Online version Complete the text with the verbs from the box. Sometimes you will have to change the verb to the continuous form. Sometimes both forms are possible. by Marcus França 1 At the beginning of last month I looked out of my window and saw the telltale signs : increase traffic , early - morning crowds , glum faces . Yes , that's right , the children to school and parents a new work year . And I asked myself an old question : do we have the work / life balance right ? A new generation of economists the century - long assumption of economics : that men and women are motivated by more - more profit , more possessions , more work . Is the hectic pace of life what we really want ? 14 - hour days long into our golden age ? And will it make us happy ? The number of people in mid - career who seem ready to abandon the desperate climb up the corporate ladder . And now , several journalists and social commentators us to go slower and enjoy life . Tom Hodgkinson , in How To Be Idle , says the prominent literary figures the idle life for centuries . He Bertrand Russell , Samuel Johnson and others . Carl Honoré's In Praise of Slow also suggest that slowing down may be the best way , and he provides a telling anecdote . He recalls a time recently when he extremely fast in Italy because he was late for a Slow Food meal . The irony of it !
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