From that point the odds seemed to move toward Chavel with a dreadful (32) : nine to one, eight to one, they were like a (33) finger. The men who were left drew more (34) and more carelessly: they seemed to Chavel to have some (35) information-to know that he was the one. When his time came to draw there were only three (36) left, and it appeared to Chavel a monstrous injustice that there were so few choices left for him.It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful (37) to a greater age than in the past. "Old ladies" are (38) becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be (39) White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be (40) as medievally old-fashioned. The (41) of the future will be golden, curly and cherry-lipped, neat-ankled and slender.Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are (42) a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's (43) . In 10,000 hours you could have learned (44) to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages (45). If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the (46) Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it.Age discrimination in employment is unrestrained, with arbitrary retirement practices and (47) against hiring older people for available jobs. Social Security (48) the old by reducing their income checks as soon as they (49) more than $2,400 a year. Job-training programs don't want the (50) (or the middle-aged, for that matter), so there is no opportunity to learn new skills.Employers rarely make (51) for the possible physical limitations of otherwise valuable older employees, and instead they are fired, retired or forced to resign.Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, but Arthur knew that they would (52) each other in peace, would not even call out (53). No one bothered you: you were a hunter,a dreamer, your own boss,(54) from it all for a few hours on any day that the (55) did not throw down its rain. Like the corporal in the 56who said it was marvelous the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory.

A.greetings B.elderly C.extinct D.quickly E.inevitability

F.appearance G.slips H.original I.bias J.leave

K.earn L.weather M.fluently N.regarded O.already

P.pointing Q.what R.degree S.away T.inner

U.crone V.army W.penalizes X.enough Y.concessions

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