Sentence Matching
1. She moved to a smaller apartment
because money is
a) all the money and end up with nothing.
2. Greg inherited a
b) bills to buy some diamond jewelry.
3. I had to withdraw $500 from my
emergency
c) broke and asks his friends to pay for his
drinks.
4. Two men were arrested after trying
to use counterfeit
d) expenses have gone down quite a bit.
5. A lot of lottery winners squander
e) fortune from his great-grandfather.
6. I moved back in with my parents, so
my living
f) fund to pay for a dental treatment.
7. I know nothing about the stock
g) market, but I'd like to start investing - I need a
financial advisor.
8. He's not very financially
h) savvy; he has no clue where his money is
going.
9. Jonathan always says he's
i) that you borrowed last week
10. Hey, you still owe me the $5
j) tight at the moment.
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Lesson 18 – Travel
Last week I had the worst business trip I’ve ever taken. Normally a travel agency takes care of booking
my flight (buying a plane ticket) and making my hotel reservation, but this time I decided make the
travel arrangements myself. Big mistake!
First of all, the plane was overbooked (there were more passengers than seats available) so I was
bumped to a later flight. When they gave me my new boarding pass (the ticket that allows you to enter
the airplane), they didn’t ask me if I’d prefer a window seat or an aisle seat (a seat next to the corridor)
– and I was stuck in the middle. To top it off, it was a very bumpy flight (a flight with a lot of turbulence).
I then missed my connecting flight and had a ten-hour layover (I had to wait ten hours for my next
flight) in Chicago. Unfortunately, my checked luggage (the bags in the airplane’s cargo compartment)
had already gone through to my final destination, so all I had was my carry-on bag (the bag you take
with you on the plane). I checked into a hotel near the airport just so I could take a nap.
When I finally arrived in Los Angeles, it turns out that I had made a mistake with my hotel reservation,
and instead of booking a room at a five-star hotel, I had booked three nights at a seedy hotel (a hotel
that is not very safe or comfortable) in the red-light district (an area of the city where there are many
sex shops, strip clubs, etc.)! So I was stuck sleeping on an uncomfortable mattress in a dingy room (a
dirty and dark room) while my colleagues enjoyed the luxury hotel.
The trip home was uneventful, but when I arrived I discovered that the airline had lost my luggage. All in
all it was a miserable experience.
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