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Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer should be based on the passage only. For two or three generations past, ever-increasing numbers of individuals have been living as workers merely, not as human beings. An excessive amount of labour is rule today in every circle of society, with the resul t that man's spiritual element cannot thrive. He finds it very difficult to spend his little leisure in serious activities. He do es not want to think; or he cannot even if he wants to. He seeks not self-improvement, but entertainment which would enable him to be mentally idle and to forget his usual activities. Therefore, the so-called culture of our age is dependant more on cinema than on theatre, more on newspapers, magazines and crime stories than on serious literatur e. Man does not seek self-improvement because he