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Choose the most suitable word given for each space in the text

           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 moment 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? it is the conservation in the farmyard that keeps 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 recognized their leadership (10)____ Or we can blame it all on someone else, the family or the taxman. I suspect, and say this under my (11)_____., that most of us work rather as Mr. Micawber lived, 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. Once 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

Đáp án chính xác

B. meditate

C. consider

D. launch

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Chọn A

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