Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _______ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _______ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _______ .
They’re part of a new form of the _______ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _______ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _______ .
It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _______ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _______ . But house sitting also offers a level of _______ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.
The couple has a high ________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ________ . For Jessica, that means ________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ________ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ________ ,” she says.
1.A.indoors | B.online | C.single-handed | D.full-time |
2.A.game | B.service | C.vacation | D.procedure |
3.A.safe | B.busy | C.helpful | D.affordable |
4.A.local | B.private | C.sharing | D.agricultural |
5.A.strangers’ | B.parents’ | C.co-workers’ | D.neighbors’ |
6.A.favor | B.defense | C.honor | D.absence |
7.A.plan | B.explain | C.compare | D.complete |
8.A.buy | B.transport | C.choose | D.please |
9.A.support | B.comfort | C.control | D.attention |
10.A.cooking | B.staying | C.waiting | D.studying |
11.A.success | B.survival | C.growth | D.unemployment |
12.A.budget | B.abilities | C.expectations | D.understanding |
13.A.admiring | B.donating | C.sending | D.borrowing |
14.A.clean | B.open | C.simple | D.empty |
15.A.guess | B.decision | C.response | D.impression |