2 . When you find something you love to do, you should do something about it, as one man has proved by turning his hobby into a dream _________.
Former waiter, Bartek, who lives in London, started cooking as a way to _________ the time during lockdown but the hobby has ended up _________ changing his life. The 25-year-old shared videos of his food on TikTok under the username @ letscook and went viral, _________ 580,000 followers. His videos have proved so popular that he has _________ to quit his job to start cooking full-time.
It all _________ in April 2020, when Bartek made a cheesecake at home during lockdown. His younger sister Tosia, 16, thought the sweet treat looked so impressive that he should _________ it on TikTok. Although he was _________ in cooking his own simple food, and had previously worked as a _________ at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Bartek had no experience with __________ cooking meals in front of a camera.
The TikTok star, who is originally from Poland, __________ to give the video-sharing app a __________ and his second post-creamy garlic chicken-went viral, reaching 500,000 people overnight. Finding it fun to experiment and bring forth new ideas for classic dishes, he __________ posting videos, filming the process on his phone and __________ the videos himself.
His audience has continued to grow ever since and he __________ his success to his mum, Mariola, who would __________ traditional Polish recipes for his family.
The new cook has become so __________ that he was able to quit his former job in August 2021 and has now __________ his own recipe book called Let’s Cook. He said: “I’ve always been in the __________ with my mum so she taught me a lot, but I only __________ got into cooking because of lockdown. And now I am doing my dream job.”
1. A.job | B.journey | C.state | D.food |
2. A.tell | B.waste | C.take | D.pass |
3. A.hardly | B.completely | C.partly | D.frequently |
4. A.expecting | B.producing | C.obtaining | D.offering |
5. A.managed | B.refused | C.failed | D.hated |
6. A.finished | B.stopped | C.started | D.interrupted |
7. A.add | B.place | C.focus | D.post |
8. A.dressed | B.interested | C.involved | D.caught |
9. A.host | B.monitor | C.waiter | D.star |
10. A.showing | B.practising | C.explaining | D.selling |
11. A.asked . | B.responded | C.pretended | D.decided |
12. A.hand | B.try | C.ride | D.reason |
13. A.avoided | B.quit | C.continued | D.allowed |
14. A.editing | B.downloading | C.copying | D.buying |
15. A.devotes | B.donates | C.leads | D.owes |
16. A.hide | B.collect | C.steal | D.absorb |
17. A.polite | B.sensitive | C.successful | D.curious |
18. A.published | B.bought | C.borrowed | D.lent |
19. A.book | B.video | C.restaurant | D.kitchen |
20. A.suddenly | B.really | C.carefully | D.cautiously |