Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - Someone has to do it for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the rest of the article about four terrible modern jobs. Match the sentences below to the jobs. Sometimes there is more than one possible answer. Underline the parts of the article that help you decide. Then work in pairs and compare your ideas.

Answer

1

  • g (you’re helping science, which benefits everyone!)  
  • h (For between €45 and €4,500, they take a new drug to test for any side effects ... Some students join these drug trials as a relatively quick and easy way of earning money )

2

  • a (They work anything up to 50 hours a week)  
  • e (I suffer from backache)
  • g (And of course the families of the dead are usually very grateful for the job I’ve done, which is obviously a big motivation for me)

3

  • c (We get quite a lot of abuse)
  • h (the money’s quite good)
  • f (I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. I’d like to leave, but the money’s quite good)

4

  • b (I got on really well with my co-workers)
  • d (there are dangers in handling ... used syringes. ... you can get hepatitis or other serious illnesses if you’re not careful.)