You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.

 

It’s safe to say that most of us often feel (1) …………………….  for time. So much so that we are experiencing what Ashley Whillans of the Harvard Business School, the lead author of the study, (2) …………………….. as a “time famine “ and like any famine, this (3)…..……………. lack of time take its toll on our health. Well, if time is money, Whillans and her team wondered whether money that’s used to buy time could (4) …………………….. some relief. Like paying someone else to clean the house, mow the lawn, or deliver the (5) ……………………….. . To find out, the researchers asked more than 6,000 people from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, and the (6) ……………………………… to rate their overall satisfaction with life, and to estimate how much money they lay out each month to(7) …………………………  unenjoyable daily tasks or otherwise purchase some time off. And they found that (8) ………………………….. who willingly swap funds for free time also report feeling more content regardless of their income or how many hours they work each week

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