Vocabulary and Comprehension Exercises Exercise 1. (Text 1). Answer each question with a complete sentence.

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1. Does a secretary put papers away in the garbage or in the file cabinet?

2. Does she write books or letters?

3. Does she meet the boss or the visitors?

4. Does she answer the telephone or the typewriter?

5. Does she use the typewriter every day or every week?

6. Is the porter a worker or a guest?

7. Does he work in an office or in a hotel?

8. Does he show the travelers their bags or their rooms?

9. Does a chef plan meals or lessons?

10. Does the chef work with other cooks or does he work alone?

11. Do the helpers plan meals or prepare food?

12. Is the surgeon a doctor or a hotel worker?

13. Does the surgeon order books or medicine for his patients?

14. Are operations for sick people or for well people?

15. Does a businessperson prepare meals or reports?

16. Does he work in an office or in a school?

17. Does he work together with other people or alone?

18. Does a firefighter start fires or put them out?

19. Does a firefighter inspect buildings or food?

20. Do firefighters save people or money?

21. Does a construction worker put together buildings or telephones?

22. Does he cut wood or bricks?

23. Does he repair buildings or people?

24. Does a musician make instruments or music?

25. Do musicians practice every week or every day?

26. Do musicians play in an orchestra or in a post office?

27. Do fashion models put on new clothes or old clothes?

28. Do models help sell books or clothes?

29. Do they collect pictures or magazines?

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1. A secretary answers the telephone.

2. A secretary writes books.

3. A secretary meets people.

4. She puts papers away in the garbage.

5. She stands between her boss and his visitors.

6. She helps her boss to plan his time.

7. She helps her boss to spoil his work.

8. A porter works in an office.

9. He helps the guests with their bags.

10. He shows the travelers to their rooms.

11. Hotel guests give the porter letters.

12. Chefs work in hotels.

13. The chef throws away the food.

14. The chef plans the meals.

15. A chef usually has many helpers.

16. A surgeon is a kind of doctor.

17. The surgeon repairs telephones.

18. He operates on sick people.

19. He watches his patients until they are sick.

20. The surgeon works in a school.

21. A businessperson works with patients.

22. An office is a place of business.

23. A businessperson goes to business meetings.

24. Buying and selling are business activities.

25. A businessperson hires other workers.

26. A firefighter works in a post office.

27. He tries to prevent fires.

28. He asks people to throw litter.

29. Firefighters ride to fires in fire engines.

30. They save people from fires.

31. A construction worker puts apartments together.

32. He measures and cuts bricks.

33. He carries bricks and metal parts.

34. He follows a lesson plan.

35. Construction workers build houses and stores.

36. An orchestra is a group of musicians.

37. Musicians make instruments.

38. A musician has to practice every day.

39. Musicians read music.

40. New music always sounds good.

41. Fashion models show us new styles of cameras.

42. They stand in front of cameras.

43. Their pictures appear in newspapers and magazines.

44. Fashion models collect business reports.

45. Fashion models help sell new fashions.