Question

Нужна ваша ! xiii. прочитайте текст и укажите, верны (true) или нет (false) следующие за ним утверждения. martha glass: i'm thirty-nine years old and i'm a doctor. i chose the medical profession because i wanted to help people and at the same time make good money. when i was younger i wanted to become a teacher or a nurse, but i soon realized there wasn't much money in either of those professions. my parents almost didn't help me, because they didn't want me to have a career at all. they wanted me to do what so many other girls did. they wanted me to become a secretary, marry the boss, have kids and stay at home. well, i got married, and i had kids, but i have my career as well. billy walles: i left school when i was sixteen. i didn't have any qualification. i just wanted to earn some money. i got a job in a factory. i didn't mind being a blue-collar worker. all i wanted was enough money to take my girlfriend out on a saturday night. but then they got robots in to do my job and i was out of work. i was out of work for sixteen months. it's terrible being unemployed. the days seem so long. i finally got a job as an unskilled labourer, working for a builder. i'm twenty-five now. i suppose i should go to night classes and get some extra training so that i can earn more money as a skilled worker can. george rushton: i'm a businessman. i'm fifty years old and i've been working for the same company for twenty-five years. i think i've had a very successful career. i started work with the company as a poorly paid clerk. i 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. i hated it. so i was transferred to sales and became one of the company's sales representatives. i travelled all over the country selling the company's products and became the most successful salesperson on the staff. in ten years i have been promoted to manager of the sales department. in another ten years i hope to retire with a good pension. 1. martha glass wanted to become a secretary. a. true b. false 2. martha glass has made her career. a. true b. false 3. billy walles wants to be a qualified worker. a. true b. false 4. billy walles has never been unemployed. a. true b. false 5. george rushton enjoyed his nine-to-five work in the office. a. true b. false 6. george rushton travelled on business to different countries. a. true b. false

Answer 1

1- False
2- True
3- True
4- False
5- False
6- True