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  3. A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_

A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_

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问题     A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_____ the client is based. He can(3)_____ to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n)(4)_____ lover. "It’s quite (5)_____ to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.
    So the job(6)_____ "insecure overachievers"— a phrase(7)_____ 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(8)_____ within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world,(9)_____ their experience and(10)_____ allow them to slot in several levels(11)_____ their less-travelled counterparts.
    The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where(12)_____ young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places(13)_____ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating(14)_____ are richest.
    Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria.(15)_____ consultancies benefit from it. They(16)_____ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one(17)_____ why consultants have to travel so much.
    The system(18)______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not(19)_____ 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,(20)_____ enough sleep.
(12)
选项 A、frustrated
B、curious
C、ambitious
D、jobless
答案C
解析 从句子意思来看，年轻的咨询师想要在大城市就业，可谓都是有野心、雄心壮志的。用aInbitious。frustrated“挫败的”；curious“好奇的”；jobless“失业的”。
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