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It isn’t easy to make the (1)
transition
from a busy
university student to an unemployed young
adult (2)
slumped
on a bar stool or half watching a
mindless television show, wondering if and
how their career is going to (3)
proceed
. Many people who
have experienced a long period of
inactivity like this, when (4)
recounting
how they felt at
the time, refer to the same strange
psychological effect. As the days pass,
they begin to feel (5)
detached
from any sense of pressure
to go and look for a job, and tend to
regard (6)
upcoming
interviews as if they were not very
important. Typically, back at home
after three or four years away, they (7)
revert
to old habits,
start seeing old friends, and, in many
cases, become dependent again on their parents.
When I lived
in
Britain, one of my favourite radio programmes was
called “Desert Island Discs”.
The
format was always the same: Guest celebrities were
asked to imagine they had been washed
ashore on a desert island, and had to
choose nine books
–
(1)
excluding
the Bible and
Shakespeare,
which they were already
provided with
–
to take with
them to the island, to help them (2)
withstand
the physical and
mental isolation. I sometimes like to think which
books I would take.
(3)
Normally
, like most people,
I don’t
have much time for reading, and
I could (4)
cite
dozens of
books which I have never read but which
I
would like to. It’s an opportunity I
have (5)
awaited
all
my life, in fact. But what would I
choose? Mostly
novels, probably, but I
wouldn’t (6)
neglect
to
include a volume or two of poetry. My
first choice, I think,
would be
Tolstoy’s
War and Peace
.
I’ve never read it, but I’m ready to
believe that it is one of the most
marvelous books ever written.
A
Professor
Ridgeway, you’ve just written a biography of the
poet
Shelley, who (1)
drowned
off
the
coast
of Italy in 1822 in a sailing
accident. As you remind us in the introduction,
people’s lives
have been (2)
enriched
by poetry for
thousands of years. What (3)
recommendation
could you
make to a young poet who is just
beginning their career?
B
That they should always (4)
strive
to be themselves, and
not to worry about (5)
originality
.
Once
they’ve
found their own voice, it will
be original in its own way, because everyone is
unique.
A
So you don’t believe in the (6)
classifications
which label
poets as “romantic” or “modernist”
and
so on?
B
I do,
but they have limited value.
A
What do you think is the
main (7)
obstacle
facing
young poets today?
B
I think it is to accept that you cannot
be productive all the time. A
poet’s
mind is never (8)
idle
and
waiting for the right moment is part of the
creative process. All other problems are relative,
and can be (9)
tackled
when you get to them.
At a time of global (1)
crisis
, when stock markets
are falling across the world, we should never
(2)
underestimate
the ability of fashion designers to
surprise us by bringing sunshine into people’s
lives, and avoiding the (3)
predominant
trend of gloom
and pessimism. This is certainly true of the
fashion industry in Brazil. In 2009,
when the effects of the financial situation were
(4)
visible
almost
everywhere, top designers launched a (5)
daring
new collection
combining high hemlines,
low necklines,
and lots of
colour. As one commentator
wrote, “You can call it a (6)
courageous
decisi
on if you like, but
it’s also a
question of
Brazilians doing what comes naturally to
them.”
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.
If you’re
going to study in the UK, a bank account is (1)
indispensible
. That’s
because for
(2)
transactions
involving large sums of money you need
to pay by bank
transfer, or by cheque.
It’s
(3)
fairly
obvious you can’t carry large amounts
of cash around with you all the time. So you need
to
choose a bank. And that’s
not easy, because these days you hear more (4)
complaints
than
appreciation of the services they
provide. They all spend a lot of money on (5)
publicity
trying to
attract students, whom they see as an
investment for their own future. Some of them
offer (6)
exclusive
free
gifts like designer T-
shirts or stylish
pens to secure your custom. But don’t be
(
7)
deceived
by
these offers. A (8)
contented
customer is someone who knows they can
rely on their
bank to (9)
notify
them when conditions
change, and not to (10)
omit
to tell them when interest
rates on overdrafts or credit card
repayments have been increased.
1 Ken Hu is now an
executive
in a company which
specializes
in giving advice
to private
investors.
2
Although the programme was
compatible
with my computer, the instructions were
written in
code
, so I was
unable to understand anything.
3 It is
obviously an
asset
to a
marriage if each
spouse
has
a sensible attitude towards money.
4
Let’s try to create a more
prosperous
future by planning ahead and agreeing
on
mutual
goals.
5 We are
intimate
friends, but I don’t know how many
savings
they have in the
bank.
If you’re
going to study in the UK, a bank account is (1)
indispensible
. That’s
because for
(2)
transactions
involving large sums of money you need
to pay by bank transfer, or by cheque.
It’s
(3)
fairly
obvious you can’t carry large amounts
of cash a
round with you all the time.
So you need to
choose a bank. And
that’s not easy, because these days you hear more
(4)
complaints
than
appreciation of the services they
provide. They all spend a lot of money on (5)
publicity
trying to
attract students, whom they see as an
investment for their own future. Some of them
offer (6)
exclusive
free
gifts like designer T-
shirts or stylish
pens to secure your custom. But don’t be (7)
deceived
by these offers. A
(8)
contented
customer is
someone who knows they can rely on their
bank to (9)
notify
them when conditions change, and not to
(10)
omit
to tell them when
interest
rates on overdrafts or credit
card repayments have been increased.
1 Ken Hu is now an
executive
in a company which
specializes
in giving advice
to private
investors.
2
Although the programme was
compatible
with my computer, the instructions were
written in
code
, so I was
unable to understand anything.
3 It is
obviously an
asset
to a
marriage if each
spouse
has
a sensible attitude towards money.
4
Let’s
try to create a more
prosperous
future by
planning ahead and agreeing on
mutual
goals.
5 We are
intimate
friends, but I
don’t know how many
savings
they have in the bank.
1 I’m afraid I can’t
cash
this for you, it hasn’t been
signed.
2 Did you expect
them to
gift
you the
computer instead of getting you to pay for it?
3 After the match they
bussed
us all home.
4 I will
text
you
as soon as I get to the station.
5 She
handed
me a copy of the
report before the start of the meeting.
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