听力题 Life-style is the way a person lives work, leisure time, hobbies, other interests, and personal philosophy. One''s personal life-style may be (36) 1 work, including few social activities. Another''s may involve hobbies, (37) 2activities, or personal philosophy. There is little doubt that life-styles are changing and that these changes will have an (38) 3on the way business operates in the years (39) 4. Several factors are causing life-style changes in U. S. society. First, there is more leisure time than ever before. The workweek is now less than forty hours, as (40) 5to seventy hours a century ago. Some (41) 6believe it will be twenty-five hours or less before the year 2000. Several firms have (42) 7four-day workweeks with more hours per day. Others have cut the number of hours worked each week. Reduced work (43) 8 mean increased leisure time. Second, families have fewer children than before—(44) 9. This trend has forced many businessman to modify their competitive strategies. Gerber products Company used to advertise "babies are our business—and our only business". (45) 10. Third, people are better educated and more prosperous now than they were earlier. (46) 11. Inquiries of this nature have sometimes led to personal life-style changes.