Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Job recruiters say that it‟s getting more and more difficult today to convince candidates to relocate. Instead people are increasingly open to “extreme commuting” as an alternative to relocation. Extreme commuting is the term used to describe a daily journey to work by car or train that takes more than 90 minutes each way, or a plane journey to work and back each week. Family ties are the leading reason for resistance to relocating, according to half the recruiters surveyed, while lifestyle preferences (25%) and housing market costs (10%) are also contributing factors.
Nick Thomer works in publishing in the UK. He commutes every day to get from his home in south-east London to his office in Oxford, and then back again. “My journey to work and back usually eats up to 6 hours of my day. The morning trip involves getting up at the crack of dawn. Going home is marginally more tiring because I have to contend with rush-hour traffic. If I leave the office by 5.15 p.m, I‟ll normally struggle through my front door by around 8.30 p.m. I‟ll then have an hour to eat, read a story to my daughter, and iron clothes for next day before I go to bed.
I do it because my wife and daughter are quite settled where we are and they‟d prefer not to move. For my part, I enjoy my job so feel it‟s worth the commute. The long journey does have its advantages, too. It gives me some precious „me time‟ when I can listen to music or radio programmes that my family don‟t like listening to at home.”
(Adapted from New English File by Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig)
