Задание 46 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
From Failure to Success
Failure is something that we all face in our lives. I’ve sure had my PART / SHARE / NUMBER / QUANTITY. I remember that by the mid 1990s, I had worked myself all the way from a sales person to Marketing Director of a thriving company only to discover that I really did not like that position. So I did something radical. I decided TO HIRE / TO RETIRE / TO QUIT / TO STOP that very secure job and start my own advertising based business. It was an original idea in an industry I was very familiar with — a business magazine mailed to local business owners around my community. A great idea plus my hard work ethic would work, I was sure.
Both my wife and I put everything we had, financially and emotionally, into this idea. It was very exciting to see how fast we acquired our first (and last) 30 clients! Within a couple of months we had a real magazine! Clients were getting fantastic results. There was only one small problem. Although clients were INTERESTED / KEEN / WORRIED / EXCITED about the return they were getting, some still had financial problems and couldn’t continue on a regular BASIS / BASE / SYSTEM / ROUTINE. The bottom line was that we eventually EXPIRED / WENT / RAN / ENDED out of money. Then, on top of having to close down the magazine, we even had to sell our car just to pay postage for the last mailing!
I was devastated…my dream had died. I remember how depressed I was. I had no job, no money, and worst of all — a seriously damaged sense of confidence. Maybe, that’s where you are now.
It took another two months for me to hit the real bottom when I had to sell our earthquake preparedness kit to buy some food…we were that BREAK / BROKE / BROKEN UP / BROKEN-DOWN. But I didn’t give up hope to find employment. A week later, totally out of the WAY / SUDDEN / FRAME / BLUE, I received a call from a stranger offering me the best job I’d ever had. An old friend who I hadn’t talked with for years referred me to him. It was nothing short of a miracle, it was eerie.
From Failure to Success
Failure is something that we all face in our lives. I’ve sure had my SHARE. I remember that by the mid 1990s, I had worked myself all the way from a sales person to Marketing Director of a thriving company only to discover that I really did not like that position. So I did something radical. I decided TO QUIT that very secure job and start my own advertising based business. It was an original idea in an industry I was very familiar with — a business magazine mailed to local business owners around my community. A great idea plus my hard work ethic would work, I was sure.
Both my wife and I put everything we had, financially and emotionally, into this idea. It was very exciting to see how fast we acquired our first (and last) 30 clients! Within a couple of months we had a real magazine! Clients were getting fantastic results. There was only one small problem. Although clients were EXCITED about the return they were getting, some still had financial problems and couldn’t continue on a regular BASIS. The bottom line was that we eventually RAN out of money. Then, on top of having to close down the magazine, we even had to sell our car just to pay postage for the last mailing!
I was devastated…my dream had died. I remember how depressed I was. I had no job, no money, and worst of all — a seriously damaged sense of confidence. Maybe, that’s where you are now.
It took another two months for me to hit the real bottom when I had to sell our earthquake preparedness kit to buy some food…we were that BROKE. But I didn’t give up hope to find employment. A week later, totally out of the BLUE, I received a call from a stranger offering me the best job I’d ever had. An old friend who I hadn’t talked with for years referred me to him. It was nothing short of a miracle, it was eerie.
