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2006.3 SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 1-5 One of the most disturbing statistics Ive read for a long time was published this week. The Work Foundation claims that job satisfaction in this country has fallen alarmingly. Womens satisfaction level has fallen from 51 percent in 1992 to 29 percent today; mens has fallen from 35 percent to 20. The reason-the long-hours culture and job insecurity.For my fathers generation, work was something that had to be endured so that real life could be maintained. But my generation has been gulled into thinking that work is real life. Most work is not satisfying. Most work stinks. Most work, however well paid, is meaningless and dull. But somehow weve been convinced that work provides self-fulfillment.Before Mrs Thatcher, we had a famous British attitude to work--the less we did the better. Thatcher introduced the idea that, in a world where identity was so fragile, you could become real through work, through long hours and assiduous consumption, in the small amount of time you had been left after clocking off. Now Blair carries on the crusade, Ive got one of the best jobs in the world--siV3ng in an once by myself all day trying to make up something that someone somewhere wit! be interested in. But Id rather be stretched out in front of the TV, or in bed, or playing tennis, or doing just about anything else.Much of feminist thought has been about getting what men have traditionally had without examining the underlying assumption of whether it was worth having. Feminism never ended up with a life built around creative leisure