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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

British people are working to an older age. 1. number of working 70-74-year-olds has doubled in recent years. Around 10% of people in 2. (they) early 70s now work. This is the 3. (high) figure on record. An important reason4. the British work in their old age is that retirement pensions are becoming more difficult to live on. 5.___________(consequence) many older people have to work in order to survive.

Britain6._______ (see) great changes in the labor market during the last decade, 7. _______far more people working beyond their retirement age. While there are plenty who enjoy remaining in work, many need to earn extra cash because they can not afford8._______(retire) early. Older people need decent(体面地) jobs and pensions so that they can make a proper 9. (choose) about whether they remain in work. Now they are deciding on a career change later in life and are starting up their own businesses, 10. (devote) to something they may have dreamed of doing for years.

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