C1 English Test 1 - Text With Multiple Choice Gaps — Exercise 1
Select the best answer from the dropdown menu after reading the text.
, when I accepted the post of project coordinator, quite how demanding the role would turn out to be. It was not the workload troubled me, but rather the constant uncertainty. the support of my colleagues, I would almost certainly have resigned within a month. The director insisted that every proposal submitted a fortnight in advance, a rule which, tiresome, prevented a great many mistakes. was the pressure at one point that several members of the team began coming in at weekends. warned about the deadlines from the outset, I ought to have organised my time far more carefully. What I had failed to appreciate the sheer scale of the paperwork involved. that the budget had already been cut twice, further delays were simply out of the question. how hard we worked, the schedule kept slipping. On no account discuss the provisional figures with the press. Personally, I would resign than compromise the quality of the research. By the time the report was finally published, we had been working on it for the part of two years. It is only now, looking back, I can appreciate how much the experience taught me. , I have very few regrets.