Reading Part 1
You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 1–6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you
think fits best according to the text.
Do what you love
Joey always thought he knew where his life would take him. He went to university and studied to become a
teacher. He’d always wanted to work with teenagers, and had a talent for geography, so the profession of
geography teacher seemed the perfect choice. He got the first job he sent in an application form, too, and
started work just a few months after getting his degree.
It wasn’t long before he realised he was completely unsuited to it. The classes were impossible to control and
the geography that he had to teach was uninteresting even to him. But he couldn’t think of anything else he
wanted to do. His father had worked as an accountant all his life, but all those numbers made Joey’s head hurt.
His mother was still a sales rep, and a very good one, but Joey had never been good at persuading people to
do things. Finally, his sister June worked in the local newspaper as a journalist. Like his sister, Joey loved to
write, but he didn’t want to report bad news all the time.
The year passed without things getting much better. Joey had the long summer stretching ahead of him, and
he didn’t want to spend it at home, worrying about going back to school in September. So when he saw an
advert for voluntary work at a summer camp for teenagers from problem homes, he applied immediately and
was accepted. His friends couldn’t understand. They asked him what difference there was between a
classroom full of children and a camp full of them, but he had no worries like that.
He had been in the Scouts, and knew all about how to have fun in the woods. He and the teenagers went for
long walks, and he showed them how to build a safe fire. They went fishing and swimming in the river. He even
got to use his knowledge of geography to show them how to read a map to know where they were going. To
pass the time at night, after the kids had gone to bed, he wrote about the day’s events in a blog he had created
just for that purpose.
When the summer was coming to an end, the director of the charity turned up at the camp, and after a tour of
the place, took Joey to one side for a chat. She said she had been following his blog with great interest, and
that many of the parents of the teenagers were doing the same. They found it a great comfort to know what
their sons and daughters were doing while they were away from home. Parents that had children at the two
other camps the charity ran asked why something similar didn’t exist for their camps. She wanted to offer Joey
a job, in fact – to create a blog for all the camps, and to be responsible for keeping the parents and others
informed about what happened in them. Joey accepted without a second thought. By chance, he had found a
job doing exactly what he loved.
1
What was Joey’s life like before he started work as a teacher?
A He mostly worked with children.
B It followed a careful plan.
C It changed direction twice.
D He wasn’t sure what he wanted.
2
What does the word it refer to in line 6?
A the application
B his degree
C teaching
D geography
3
Which job did Joey find confusing?
A his own
B his father’s
C his mother’s
D his sister’s
4
How did Joey feel about the voluntary work?
A unsure
B confused
C anxious
D confident
5
Why did Joey create the blog?
A The teenagers asked him to do it.
B It was something to do in the evening.
C He thought it might lead to a job.
D It took his mind off his teaching job.
6
What did the parents of the teenagers like about his blog?
A It allowed them to follow their children’s progress.
B It was written in a very interesting way.
C The charity’s other two camps didn’t have blogs.
D It was written by a professional teacher.​

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