Fun for the Masses Reading Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

Fun for the Masses
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Fun for the Masses is a real Reading test passage that appeared in the IELTS.

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Fun for the Masses

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Fun for the Masses PDF here.

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The answers with explanations are given below

Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
15	x	Better off than you used to be, after six years of sustained economic growth	Paragraph A
16	iv	Looks at the living-standards debate, unusual direction	Paragraph B
17	i	Family’s budget that was spent on having fun rose sharply with its income	Paragraph C
18	viii	Share of the family budget spent on leisure, rises much less sharply with income	Paragraph D
19	ix	Public investment in sports complexes, parks and golf courses, technological innovation.	Paragraph F

20	vi	Pointing accusing fingers at technology, widening inequality in the wages of skilled and unskilled workers	Paragraph G
21	ii	Findings are not water-tight, depend heavily upon what exactly is classed as a recreational expenditure	Paragraph H
22	income levels	How much people earn is relatively easy, compared with measuring how well they live.	Paragraph A, Last 2 lines
23	non-luxury spending	Leisure has steadily become less of a luxury, by 1991, all income levels, more of their money on having fun	Paragraph D, First 2 lines & Last 2 lines
24	holiday time	Rising incomes are responsible, Americans have more time off than they used to.	Paragraph E, Lines 4-7
25	computer technology	Accusing fingers at technology, widening inequality in the wages,	Paragraph G, First 5 lines
26	recreational activities	Findings are not water-tight, what exactly is classed as a recreational expenditure.	Paragraph H, First 3 lines
27	D	Nonetheless, broad conclusion seems fair.	Paragraph I, Last 3 lines

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