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    British people are working to an older age. ____ number of working 70-74-year-olds has doubled in recent years. Around 10% of people in ____ (they) early 70s now work. This is the ____(high) figure on record. An important reason ____ the British work in their old age is that retirement pensions are becoming more difficult to live on. ____(consequence) many older people have to work in order to survive.

    Britain ____ (see) great changes in the labor market during the last decade, ____far more people working beyond their retirement age. While there are plenty who enjoy remaining in work, many need to earn extra cash because they can not afford ____(retire) early. Older people need decent(体面地) jobs and pensions so that they can make a proper ____(choose) about whether they remain in work. Now they are deciding on a career change later in life and are starting up their own businesses, ____(devote) to something they may have dreamed of doing for years.