Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in brackets.

Bernie never thinks about anyone else—he’s completely self-__________! (OBSESS)

The area of Italy is ________ as big as that of Canada.

What was the speaker’s previous topic?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct arrangement of the sentences to make a meaningful paragraph in each of the following questions.

a. I like my job, but it’s annoying that my commute to work takes an hour and a half each way and most of my work could really be done online from home. 

b. It’s annoying that they feel the need to monitor what we do so closely instead of judging us based on our task performance.

c. Most companies allow working from home these days, but not mine.

d. But my boss doesn’t seem to trust that we will get any work done if we are left to our own devices, and everyone in the company has to clock in and out every day.

e. I work in a fairly traditional office environment doing a typical nine-to-five job.