Визначте чи наступні речення правдиві (true) чи неправдиві (false). (По тексту)
1. Mary’s parents didn’t want their daughter to become there was not much money in this job.
2. Mary financially supported herself through the college by working as a secretary.
3. Mary’s job is to test people’s eyes.
4. To be a blue-collar worker means to work with a pencil in one hand and a phone in the other.
5. Bill was rather ambitious about his career when he finished school.
6. Automatization of the factory was the reason of Bill’s unemployment.
7. Bill enjoyed his free time when he was out of work.
8. John didn’t get much money when he started his career.
9. John’s promotion followed his successful work as a sales representative.
10. John hopes that he will be able to find time for hobbies when he becomes a pensioner.
11. Both Joan and Steve are very ambitious young people.
12. Both Joan and Steve want to work and live abroad.
Choosing your way in life
Marry Glass is thirty-nine years old and she is a doctor. She chose the medical profession because she
wanted to help people and at the same time to make good money. When Mary was younger her wish was
to become a teacher or a nurse but she soon realized that there was not much money in either of those
professions. Mary’s parents were rather old-fashioned people and thought that a woman’s place is at
home. So they wanted their daughter to become a secretary, marry a respectable young man, have several
children and stay at home working about the house and bringing up the kids. When Mary applied to a
medical college, her parents refused to give her any financial support and she had to work as a waitress in
a restaurant to earn money for her college fees. She specialized as an optician, made a good career in the
hospital she works, got married, had two children and is very much satisfied both with her family life and
her business career.
Billy Blackthorn left school when he was sixteen. He didn’t study well and had no qualifications. He just
wanted to earn some money and got himself a job in a factory. He didn’t mind being a blue-collar worker,
all he wanted was enough money to take his girl friend out on a Saturday night. But soon he and his
fellow-workers were replaced by robots who could do their job and Bill was sacked. He was out of work for
eighteen months and understood how terrible it was to be unemployed. The days seemed so long and the
dole that he got was enough only for the cheapest food and second-hand clothes. Bill finally got a job as an
unskilled laborer, working for a builder. He is twenty-five now and thinks that it is not too late to start
attending night classes and get some extra training so that he can earn more money as a skilled worker.
John Rushton is a businessman. He is fifty years old and he has been working for the same company for
twenty-seven years. He thinks that he has a very successful career. He started working for the company as
a poorly paid clerk and was one of those nine-to five white-collar office workers who spend all day with a
pencil in one hand and a telephone in the other. He hated it and asked to be transferred to sales where he
became one of the company’s sales representatives. John traveled all over the country selling the
company’s products and eventually became the most successful salesperson on the staff. In ten years he
was promoted to manager of the sales department. He has got a good salary and benefits. He might retire
in another ten years and then his pension will allow him to live comfortably in his country house enjoying
his hobbies that he has no time for now while he still works.
Joan Evans: This month I am leaving school to face the real world. My main ambition is to live and work
abroad. I want to work with people and see the world. I hope to go to college and do a tourism course.
When I’m in college, I will learn at least two foreign languages. I think that by the time I’m thirty I’ll be
married and have a baby. I don’t want to be rich and famous, but I do want to enjoy life. That’s all anybody
can really ask.
Steve Taylor: My greatest wish is to be a manager for Rolls Royce. I will go to work for Rolls Royce as an
apprentice, and after 2 or 4 years I will be an engineer. I’m not very ambitious but I’d like to become a
manager in Rolls Royce. I’ll get married in my mid-twenties because I want to have children and my
mother says that you need to be young to cope with them.
Ответы
1. True - у тексті зазначено, що батьки Мері не хотіли, щоб їхня донька стала медичною сестрою чи вчителькою, оскільки в цих професіях не було багато грошей.
2. True - з тексту видно, що Мері заробляла на своє утримання під час навчання в коледжі, працюючи секретаркою.
3. False - з тексту видно, що Мері стала оптиком, а не офтальмологом, чи тестувальником зірки.
4. False - описується Білл, який був фабричним робітником, але ніде не згадується про те, що це означає, що він мав би працювати з олівцем в одній руці та телефоном - в іншій.
5. True - з тексту видно, що Білл був досить амбіційним щодо своєї кар'єри після закінчення школи.
6. True - з тексту видно, що причиною безробіття Білла була автоматизація фабрики.
7. False - з тексту видно, що Білл ставився до безробіття досить песимістично і не насолоджувався вільним часом.
8. True - з тексту видно, що на початку кар'єри Джон не заробляв дуже багато грошей.
9. True - з тексту видно, що Джон був просунутий до керівної посади після успішної роботи як продавець-представник.
10. True - з тексту видно, що Джон сподівається мати час на хобі, коли стане пенсіонером.
11. True - з тексту видно, що обидва герої, Джоан та Стів, дуже амбіційні молоді люди.
12. True - З тексту можна зрозуміти, що як Joan, так і Steve мають свої мрії та плани на майбутнє, тому можна вважати, що вони є дуже амбіційними молодими людьми. Joan планує працювати та жити за кордоном, отримати професійну освіту та вивчити іноземні мови, а Steve мріє стати менеджером в компанії Rolls Royce, пройшовши відправлення і ставши інженером. Таким чином, можна зробити висновок, що обидва головують за досягненнями у своїх професійних та особистих життєвих цілях.