Collocations in Use – Part 15

.Complete this paragraph using words from the box in the appropriate form

Be  fit  land  run  sweat  take

Mel was surprised but happy to…………….a job on her local newspaper as soon as she left university. She was surprised because she didn’t feel that she …………the job description, but she was happy because she had always dreamt of working as journalist. So she didn’t really mind when she found that she was spending much of her time…………….errands for the editor. Her brother said she was just being used as……………….labor but she felt confident that there…………good prospects for her there. She was sure she would soon have the chance to …………on more responsibility

:Answers

Land/ fitted (US English: fit)/ running / sweated/ were Iwould be/ take