Have. What’s more, the job is rarely a stepping stone to fame: celebrity

Personal assistants are, on average, aged about 38, right in the middle

Of their professional lives, and most of the ones I met described their

Line of work as a lifelong (10). For them, being an assistant

Was not the means to an end but an end in itself.

3 Comment on the following issues.

Imagine you have made a new pen friend from abroad. Describe your

Hometown to your new friend.

• What is there to do?

• What does it look like?

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VARIANT 14

1 Read the text and choose the correct item for each statement below.

In 1983, Howard Schultz visited Italy. There he saw people sitting

At coffee bars, drinking their coffee and talking. He wondered whether

Americans would like to sit in coffee bars, sipping good coffee and

Talking. Schultz returned to the USA and tried to convince his bosses to

turn Starbucks, which was a company that sold whole coffee beans, into

A chain of coffee bars. They did not like the idea. Schultz then began to

look for investors. In a year, he had raised $1.7 million, and by 1986,

He had opened his first coffee bar. A year later, Schultz offered to buy

Starbucks from his old bosses. They sold him the company for about

$4 million.

Schultz’s success in the coffee business has been great. But the road

to success was not easy. The new Starbucks company lost money in each

of the first three years of operation. Schultz said that he ≪cried a lot.

But we had a conviction that this was the way to build a company and

the losses were going to end.≫

It is interesting that Howard Schultz attributes some of his success

as an entrepreneur to a book called Jacob’s Journey. Here is a quote

from it: ≪Strength is not the absence of weakness but how we wrestle

with our weakness.≫

(From «Economics in Our Times»)

Howard Schultz tried to apply an idea in the United States from

Which continent?

A Africa.

B Asia.

C South America.

D Europe.

2. Before Starbucks became a chain of coffee bars, it.

A sold coffee that was not yet ground

B sold coffee with special flavours

C sold canned coffee in supermarkets

D exported coffee to other countries

3. Why did Schultz say he ≪cried a lot≫?

A He was very happy with his new business.

B He wanted to sell his business.

C He lost money the first three years in business.

D He did not know what to name his company.

A year after opening his own coffee bar, Schultz bought his old bosses’

Business. This meant he.

A was making an investment to build his business

B was not losing any money

C wanted revenge on his bosses

D spent too much money on his bosses’ business

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Howard Schultz was motivated by the idea that successful

Businessmen.

A believe in their strength

B hide their weaknesses from others

C work in spite of their weaknesses

D cannot admit their weaknesses

What was NOT mentioned in the text?

A The USA.

B Jacob’s Journey.

C Europe.

D Italy.

2 Complete the text with the words from the box.

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