Every summer a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the chances are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and service The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the_________of travel. You can pick grapes on farms in France, entertain kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are________ jobs in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not easy now to find work. “_________you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Althea Ellis, an adviser on_________for students. “If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak _________. British students only have a _________advantage for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
________enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been _________. One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was _________home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the__________they made, and what’s worse, Sarah herself was robbed on her only free evening of the entire trip. “I did visit a lot of new places,” she says, “but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was __________and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have a(n)__________time of it.” Althea Ellis points out. “After all, they see it as a __________. In practice, however, you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. In other words, you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have __________employment rights. As soon as the holiday season __________, they’ll get rid of you.”
1.A.pains B.comfort C.difficulty D.excitement
2.A.always B.hardly C.never D.seldom
3.A.If B.Unless C.Because D.Although
4.A.health care B.vacation work C.language studies D.tourist safety
5.A.Italian B.English C.French D.Spanish
6.A.country B.language C.reading D.culture
7.A.No one B.None C.Not everyone D.Everybody
8.A.abroad B.employed C.sad D.respected
9.A.driven B.ridden C.left D.flown
10.A.friends B.decisions C.noise D.destruction
11.A.nice B.high C.fair D.poor
12.A.hard B.easy C.difficult D.terrible
13.A.holiday B.job C.festival D.study
14.A.few B.little C.all D.much
15.A.starts B.lasts C.approaches D.finishes
The film brought the hours back to me ________ I was taken good care of in that far-away village.
A.which B.who C.when D.where
When Nancy was at college, she ________ three foreign languages.
But I am surprised to find that she ________ all except a few words of each.
A.spoke; had forgotten B.had spoken; had forgotten
C.spoke; has forgotten D.had spoken; has forgotten
She is one of the few girls who ________ passed the examination.
A.was B.were C.has D.have
I’m sick of ________net bars.It’s too noisy there.
A.dropping at B.dropping in at C.dropping in D.dropping on
—This is the reason ________he gave for his absence from school.
—It is the least believable excuse ________I have ever heard.
A.that; that B.why; / C.why; which D.for which; that
