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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work___36___which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a___37___ thought. But, in fact, it could offer the___38___ of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became___39___ when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and___40___ work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, ___41___, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became___42___ for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife.
It was not only women whose work status___43___. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were___44___.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent, practical task of___45___ many people to manage without full-time jobs.

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