Americans think much about time. From childhood they learn to value time. As children, the are t___ (1) to be on time to school, to work and to do everything. When they are havin' a good time, they say that time g___ (2) easily.

When a person is dying, they say he is living o___ (3) a borrowed time. Time is money. Time is knowledge. Time is e___ (4) in America. A working American has to work hard for eight hours a dayor 40h a week. This is the working time. In his f___ (5) time, he also works hard for more money. Even on Satudray and Sunday he also works hard as u___ (6). In the street you can h___ (7) see a man walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they're running.

They love time because time can bring them money and lots of things. But s___ (8) they also hate time, b___ (9) they feel they have become servants of the clock.

1\told
2\goes
3\on
4\everything
5\free
6\usual
7\hardly
8\sometimes
9\because