A1 English test 3 – Text with multiple choice gaps

My name's Laura, and I have a journalism degree. When I finished university last year, I started looking 1 foratafter a job as a journalist. I applied for hundreds of jobs all over the UK, and I went to a 2 lotfewlittle interviews, but they all told 3 mymeI that they needed someone with experience. I never got 4 asomeany job offers.

After four months of applying for journalism jobs, I 5 decideddid decidedecide to take any type of work while I continued planning my professional future. Now I 6 workedworkam working as a waitress at a restaurant 7 oppositein front ofnext to my home – I just need to cross the street and I'm 8 atat thein the work. It's a temporary job, but I started it five months ago!

I enjoy 9 workingworkto work as a waitress. I'm a very social person, and working at a restaurant you meet people all the time, but it is also physically hard. When I am at home, I 10 usually amfeel usuallyam usually exhausted, and I 11 can't thinkcan't to thinkdon't cant think about my future career as a journalist. What 12 I'm goingam I goingdo I going to do?

I think that the 13 betterbestgoodest thing I can do is quit my job, but I'm living alone, and I need the money for the rent. My parents 14 have tellhave toldhas told me to leave the restaurant and move back with them until I find a good job, but I 15 not wantdon't want'm not want to lose my independence.