Examination Specification Level B2 (Grade 11)

SECTION 2. Reading (30 minutes)
Part 1.
Business and Work

Read the story and answer the questions.

When I walked into the office that cold winter's morning, I was quite worried about my new job. I suddenly remembered that I had had that feeling once before, on my first day at school. Naturally, I was no longer a schoolboy and I had got over my shyness with people, or so I thought. But that was exactly how I felt when I entered the room and everybody turned to look at me – like a small, shy boy who was lost in a world that was completely new to him. However, just as it had done all those years before, the feeling soon disappeared as people started smiling and welcoming me to the office.
After I had met the other workers and found my desk, it was time to meet the boss. I had, of course, met him once before in the interview. But my application for the job now seemed so long ago and I had completely forgotten what he looked like. After a few minutes had passed, he called me into his office. He was very pleasant as he explained that he wanted me to be happy there and I should ask him if I had any questions. For my first day, he gave me a pile of papers and told me to read them in preparation for a report that he wanted me to write. ‘Take your time,’ he said, ‘We're interested in doing a good job, and there's a lot of information there’. I spent the rest of the day reading the notes and trying to understand them. Soon, of course, everything became much easier and at the end of the first week, I felt like I had been there my whole life.
And that was how I got started in my career as an accountant. By the time I left, I had been working there for nearly ten years. I can honestly say it was the best job I have ever had. In the end, I only left because I had been offered a much higher salary to move to another company. It was a mistake, though, because my next job was not as interesting or as challenging. In fact, I never found the same job

Read the story and complete each sentence with one word from the text.

1. 
   His feeling of disappeared when people made him welcome.
   
2. 
   His previous meeting with the boss had been at his .
   
3. 
   His first job was to write a _.
   
4. 
   In the first week, things became a lot for him
   
5. 
   He had more job _ in that first job than
   

Part 2.