12 ADVANCED CHAPTER 5 READING 1 VOCABULARY

After many years of working for a big company, John decided to quit and start his own job as a ____ accountant.

• clerical

• self-employed

• in touch

• portrayed

Jack's business was not going well. The only option he had was to work harder because he was the only ____ in the family.

• nanny

• trend

• breadwinner

• shift

The main character in the movie is ____ as a very unkind person.

• portrayed

• clerical

• self-employed

• extended

His health condition deteriorated ____ over the last month.

• yesterday

• well

• usually

• radically

She was the first woman to breakthrough the ___ in the aerospace engineering industry.

• flextime

• job sharing

• glass ceiling

• part-time

This is a photograph of my mother's ___ you can see her parents, her brothers and sisters, her grandparents and one of her uncles.

• extended family

• immediate family

• trend

• shift

Employees who struggle to manage their professional and personal lives based on a standard 9 to 5 work schedule are encouraged to ask for ____.

• nanny

• extended family

• immediate family

• flextime

She does not want to quit her job to stay home with their children. She prefers to hire a ____.

• trend

• nanny

• flextime

• night shift

Visits to seriously ill patients in hospital are limited to ____.

• glass ceiling

• breadwinner

• immediate family

• extended family

Moving around the city on a bicycle is the new ___.

• nanny

• clerk

• shift

• trend