Cambridge C1 Advanced / reading-english / C1 Advanced
Work and careers
10 original practice questions. Open them in any order.
Independent preparation material, not an official test or score prediction.
The end of the ladder?
The end of the ladder?
For our grandparents' generation, a career was often imagined as a ladder: you joined an organisation near the bottom and, with patience and a little luck, climbed steadily towards the top. Few young people today think about their working lives in those terms. [1] anything, the ladder has been replaced by something closer to a climbing wall, on which people move sideways, and occasionally even downwards, in search of a better route. Careers advisers are keen to point out that this is not necessarily a loss. A sideways move into a different department, they argue, can broaden a person's skills far more than a promotion within a narrow specialism ever would.
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Part 2 open cloze
Read the text. Think of the word which best fits gap [1]. Use only ONE word. Write your answer in capital letters.
The end of the ladder? — gap [1]: ‘[1] anything, the ladder has been replaced by something closer to a climbing wall’. Write the one missing word.
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