Question

FILL IN the blanks with appropriate verbal forms. Use the verbs in parentheses. (The first one is done for you as an example.) (4,5 points) Money Can’t Buy Job Happiness By Jeff D. Opdyke In my first job in 1989, I earned (earn) $16,380 annually, as a reporter for a newspaper in north Louisiana. If I could only get to $25,000, I 1​._________________(remember) thinking, life would be a breeze. With a job change a few months later, I 2​.________________ (jump) past $27,000, and soon I 4​.____________ (see) $40,000 as my new bar. So even if you can survive quite nicely on what you earn, it 5​.__________________ (never seem) enough, and we immediately start 6.​________________ (daydream) of a bigger figure. I 7​.______________ (talk) last week to a friend in New York who had been approached in recent months by two companies looking to steal her away from her current job. Both would pay her a lot more money than she 8.​__________________ (make) now. She has reached that level in her current job where she no longer must prove her abilities. The thing is, she says, when you 9​.___________________ (walk) through the new doors, you have to prove yourself all over again, and that 10​.______________ (take) energy. I’m very driven, but to do that when you are established should really take something special, and something more than money. She has not decided yet. But she says: “I would be very angry with myself if I traded comfort in my current job just for money in a job that does not provide everything else I might need.”

Answer 1

-remember -jumped -saw -never seemed -day dreaming -talking -made -walk -taking