A young consultant"s life is tiring. A 41 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to 42 the client is based. He can 43 to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n) 44 lover. "It"s quite 45 to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.So the job 46 "insecure overachievers"— a phrase 47 used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most 48 within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, 49 their experience and 50 allow them to slot in several levels 51 their less-travelled counterparts.The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where 52 young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 53 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating 54 are richest.Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. 55 consultancies benefit from it. They 56 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one 57 why consultants have to travel so much.The system 58 , more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 59 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 60 enough sleep.
A. source
B. problem
C. purpose
D. reason
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A young consultant"s life is tiring. A 41 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to 42 the client is based. He can 43 to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n) 44 lover. "It"s quite 45 to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.So the job 46 "insecure overachievers"— a phrase 47 used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most 48 within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, 49 their experience and 50 allow them to slot in several levels 51 their less-travelled counterparts.The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where 52 young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 53 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating 54 are richest.Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. 55 consultancies benefit from it. They 56 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one 57 why consultants have to travel so much.The system 58 , more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 59 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 60 enough sleep.
A. fits
B. cares
C. works
D. matters
"Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them," said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things 21 society can do to its young 22 to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their 23 on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness 24 in life, 25 they lose out on the chance to 26 skills and serf-confidence in their formative years. 27 more young people are idle than ever. 28 how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors 29 a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced 30 for labour, and it is easier to 31 hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries withdysfunctional(失调的) labour markets, 32 India and Egypt.The most obvious way to 33 this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a 34 answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment 35 their economies were growing. 36 the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This 37 the importance of two other 38 : reforming labour markets and improving education. These are 39 prescriptions, but ones that need to be 40 with both a new vigour and a new twist.
A. results
B. responses
C. compromises
D. solutions
A young consultant"s life is tiring. A 41 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to 42 the client is based. He can 43 to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n) 44 lover. "It"s quite 45 to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.So the job 46 "insecure overachievers"— a phrase 47 used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most 48 within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, 49 their experience and 50 allow them to slot in several levels 51 their less-travelled counterparts.The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where 52 young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 53 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating 54 are richest.Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. 55 consultancies benefit from it. They 56 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one 57 why consultants have to travel so much.The system 58 , more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 59 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 60 enough sleep.
A. casually
B. easily
C. hastily
D. harshly
"Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them," said Margaret Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things 21 society can do to its young 22 to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their 23 on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and more spells of joblessness 24 in life, 25 they lose out on the chance to 26 skills and serf-confidence in their formative years. 27 more young people are idle than ever. 28 how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two factors 29 a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced 30 for labour, and it is easier to 31 hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest in countries withdysfunctional(失调的) labour markets, 32 India and Egypt.The most obvious way to 33 this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a 34 answer. The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth unemployment 35 their economies were growing. 36 the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This 37 the importance of two other 38 : reforming labour markets and improving education. These are 39 prescriptions, but ones that need to be 40 with both a new vigour and a new twist.
A. Through
B. All the way
C. At the beginning
D. Throughout