填空题

Most workers spend eight or nine hours on the job. They work because it’s (36) .They need to make enough money for (37) . food, rent, clothing, transportation, tuition, and so on. They spend about one-third of their lives at work, but they hate it. They complain and (38) the minutes until quitting time each day —or the days until their next vacation. By (39) there are some people who actually enjoy work —in fact, they love to work. They spend many (40) hours on the job each week and often take work home with them. These workaholics are as (41) to their jobs as other people are to drugs or alcohol. In some urban center, workaholism is so much common that people do not consider it unusual: They accept the lifestyle as (42) . Government workers in Washington D.C., for example, (43) work sixty or seventy hours a week. (44) . Hundreds of workaholics in New York City (45) There was no electricity —no air conditioning, elevators, or lights —but many people went to their offices anyway. (46) .