Read the text and choose the correct answer for each gap .

My name's Laura, and I have a journalism degree. When I finished university

last year, I started looking 1 ________a job as a journalist. I applied for
hundreds of jobs all over the UK, and I went to a 2 ______ interviews, but
they all told 3 _______that they needed someone with experience. I never got
4 _______job offers.

After four months of applying for journalism jobs, I 5 __________to take any
type of work while I continued planning my professional future. Now I 6
___________ as a waitress at a restaurant 7 _____________my home – I
just need to cross the street and I'm 8 _______ work. It's a temporary job, but
I started it five months ago!

I enjoy 9 __________as a waitress. I'm a very social person, and working at a

restaurant you meet people all the time, but it is also physically hard. When I
am at home, I 10 ____________exhausted, and I 11 _______about my future
career as a journalist. What 12 _________ to do?

I think that the 13 ________thing I can do is quit my job, but I'm living alone,
and I need the money for the rent. My parents 14 ______me to leave the
restaurant and move back with them until I find a good job, but I 15
_____________ to lose my independence.

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