When I was at school, my ambition was to be a pilot in the Air Force. But my eyesight wasn’t good enough. So I had to give up the idea. I went to university and studied physics. I wanted to stay on there and do research, but my father died at about that time. So I thought I’d better get a job and earn my living. I started working in an engineering firm.
I expected to stay in that job for a long time. But then, they appointed a new managing director. I didn’t get on well with him, so I resigned and applied for a job with another engineering company. I would certainly have accepted the job if they had offered it to me, but on my way to the interview I met a friend who was working for a travel agency. He offered me a job in Spain. And I’ve always liked Spain, so I took it.
I worked in the travel agency for two years and then they wanted to send me to South America. But I had just got married. So I decided to stay here. Then we had a baby and I
A. He didn’t like physics any more.
B. His eyesight was too poor.
C. Physics was too hard for him.
D. He had to work to support himself.
When I was at school, my ambition was to be a pilot in the Air Force. But my eyesight wasn’t good enough. So I had to give up the idea. I went to university and studied physics. I wanted to stay on there and do research, but my father died at about that time. So I thought I’d better get a job and earn my living. I started working in an engineering firm.
I expected to stay in that job for a long time. But then, they appointed a new managing director. I didn’t get on well with him, so I resigned and applied for a job with another engineering company. I would certainly have accepted the job if they had offered it to me, but on my way to the interview I met a friend who was working for a travel agency. He offered me a job in Spain. And I’ve always liked Spain, so I took it.
I worked in the travel agency for two years and then they wanted to send me to South America. But I had just got married. So I decided to stay here. Then we had a baby and I
A. He was not happy with the new director.
B. He was not qualified to be an engineer.
C. He wanted to travel.
D. He found his job boring.
This was one of my experiences (1) . When I was in my 30s, I was working for a large international company which had its head office in London. I was working in the (2) department.
The company had a training centre which was just outside London. Different courses were held there throughout (3) and I (4) go on one training course a year. These usually started (5) a Sunday evening and lasted six days.
Once I was (6) a week’s training course with about forty (7) sales people. I was in the bar on the Friday evening and suddenly a woman who was (8) behind the bar asked mea curious question. "I hope you don’t (9) my asking," she said, "but I’ve been (10) about it all week. Have you got a sister (11) Mary" The woman’s name was June. And she used to do various jobs at the training centre. She worked in the office, she organized all th
A. on
B. in
C. during
D. over
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