Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks
Have you ever asked yourself what you are working for? If you have ever had the time to (1)____ this
taboo question, or put it to others in moments of weakness or confidentiality, you (2)____ well have heard
some or all of the (3)____ . It’s the money of course, some say with a smile, as if explaining something to
a small child. Or it’s the satisfaction of (4)___ _ well done, the sense of achievement behind the clinching
of an important (5)____. I worked as a bus conductor once, and I can’t say I (6)____ the same as I
staggered along the swaying gangway trying to (7)____ out tickets without falling over into someone’s lap.
It’s the company of other people perhaps, but if that is the (8)____, what about farmers? Is it the
conversation in the farmyard that keep them captivated by the job? Work is power and a sense of status say
those (9)____ have either attained these elusive goals, or feel aggrieved that nobody has yet recognised
their leadership (10)____. Or we can blame it all on someone else, the family or the taxman. I suspect, and I
say this under my (11)____ , that most of us work rather hard, hoping for something to (12)____ up. We’ll
win the pools, and tell the boss what we really think. We’ll scrape together the (13)____ and open that little
shop we always dreamed of, or go (14)____ the world, or spend more time in the garden. One day we’ll get
that (15) ____ we deserve, but until then at least we have something to do. And we are so busy doing it that
we won’t have time to wonder why
A. propose
B. meditate
C. consider
D. launch
Đáp án C
A. might
B. shall
C. will
D. should
Đáp án A
A. below
B. rest
C. following
D. latter
Đáp án C
A. a work
B. a job
C. a task
D. an effort
Đáp án B
A. deal
B. position
C. job
D. engagement
Đáp án A
A. enjoyed
B. wished
C. hoped
D. felt
Đáp án D
A. make
B. turn
C. issue
D. give
Đáp án D
A. . one
B. case
C. question
D. former
Đáp án B
A. people
B. must
C. who
D. to
Đáp án C
A. qualities
B. status
C. property
D. property
Đáp án A
A. . oath
B. suspicion
C. breath
D. pressure
Đáp án C
A. move
B. turn
C. ease
D. end
Đáp án B
A. resources
B. opportunities
C. rest
D. money
Đáp án D
A. round
B. over
C. into
D. to
Đáp án A
A. ambition
B. station
C. vocation
D. promotion
Đáp án D