1. READING
TEXT 1
• Read the article below about traveling to find work.
• Choose the correct word or phrase, A, B, C or D to complete each gap.
• There is an example at the beginning.

GET ON YOUR BIKE

Get on your bike! That was an injunction made to (0) __D__ people by a UK cabinet minister in the 1980s. The message was, if you’re looking for work, you should be prepared to move to another part of the country to find it. (1)
is lower now in general than when the minister made this plea, but perhaps people in some parts of the UK with fewer job (2) are now more used to the idea of traveling to another city or another region to find work. This can be quite an upheaval for many, and being cut off from friends and family can be disorienting.
For British people, going to find work outside the UK in Europe has been more problematic. Many British building workers went in search of (3) work in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, but the (4) market in the UK has become so tight in the first decade of the 21st century that they will now find work easily in the UK. With the (5) for the European Union (EU), many workers from the new member countries are coming to work in UK companies, especially in construction, catering and healthcare. There is also (6) in some professions such as teaching. However, in general, the barriers to movement between countries in the EU are quite high, in terms of language, professional (7) , and cultural expectations. The upshot of all this is that the EU is a long way from being a (8) market for labor.
In the United States, on the other hand, job mobility has always been much more widespread. People move more easily from region to region in search of work. The American work (9) applies everywhere, and a business on the west coast will seem very familiar to someone from the east coast. There will be jokes about the differences in the weather, but working (10) in one state will be very similar to those in another, probably more similar than between some neighboring countries in Europe.

0 A outsourced B workless C in-work D jobless
1A Unemployment B Vacancies C Appointments D Jobs
2 A chances B situations C posts D opportunities
3 A rich B lucrative C wealthy D worth
4 A work B employed C labor D occupations
5 A expansion B grow C increase D raise
6 A moving B mobility C motion D transport
7 A litigation B regulations C tribunals D lawyers
8 A unique B one C whole D single
9 A ethic B ethics C ethnic D ethnicity
10 A conditions B conditionals C conditioning D content