10 . I was busy and often dealt with customer emails at lunch. Even fifteen minutes in the employee lunchroom seemed a _________. My company, like many companies, cut costs by not _________ people as they left. The survivors had to take up more _________.
For me, this _________ no lunch hour, plus taking work home. I wanted to _________, but I couldn’t until I had another job in hand. _________ in theory, but given how annoyed the extra hours made me feel, it was difficult to convince _________ employers to hire me. I felt trapped. Then a chance _________ with a little girl changed my perspective. The girl was _________ happy, standing in line with her mom at the grocery.
“Good day at school?” I asked.
A nod.
“What’s your favorite subject?”
I smiled at the answer. I __________ when that had been my answer. At that time, no teachers told you what to do at lunch. We just played happily.
That brief __________ left me wondering: What had happened to lunch?
I knew that by law I was __________ to a lunch break. So I decided to start __________ it. I began to had a walk during the lunch break, which made me refreshed.
Now I’m still __________ a new position but with less stressed-out urgency than before. You can’t always change your __________, but you can always change your perspective.
1. A.luxury | B.solution | C.concern | D.procedure |
2. A.protecting | B.reminding | C.supporting | D.replacing |
3. A.guidance | B.work | C.time | D.reference |
4. A.represented | B.proved | C.meant | D.designed |
5. A.accept | B.exchange | C.quit | D.agree |
6. A.Independent | B.Legal | C.Creative | D.Nice |
7. A.potential | B.previous | C.optimistic | D.influential |
8. A.travel | B.discovery | C.cooperation | D.conversation |
9. A.equally | B.merely | C.extremely | D.usually |
10. A.shared | B.remembered | C.recorded | D.checked |
11. A.encounter | B.trip | C.stop | D.summary |
12. A.entitled | B.exposed | C.related | D.suggested |
13. A.evaluating | B.extending | C.taking | D.escaping |
14. A.adapting to | B.looking for | C.taking over | D.adding to |
15. A.circles | B.identity | C.appearance | D.circumstances |