Open the brackets using correct tense forms of the verbs

A)

Jane (1) _____ (be) in her present position for six years. After she (2) ___ (leave)

university, she (3) _____ (work) as a management trainee for four years in another

oil company; she (4) _____ (never regret) the move to Arbol, since they (5) ____ (immediately put) her on their fast-track scheme for employees with the potential to become high-fliers. But today Jane faces a dilemma. In the last three weeks she

(6) _____ (receive) no less than three proposals. First, her boss, an Argentinian, who

Jane has always had an enormous respect for, suddenly announced his resignation.

Jane (7) ____ (be) shocked and surprised, especially when, just a few days later,

Arbol's HR Manager (8) ____ (call) to offer her the position. The second proposal

(9) ____ (arrive) that same evening: Estelle, one of Jane's friends from the MBA

course, who (10) ____ (already work) for several large multinationals, (11) ____

(invite) her to become a partner in a new consultancy. Last, but by no means least,

Jane's boyfriend, Howard, (12) _____ (just ask) her to marry him. Not surprisingly,

Jane has asked for more time to think about each of the proposals.

Since she left university, Jane (13) ____ (prefer) to live alone. For the last three

years, she (14) ____ (look) for a property to buy, and she (15) ____ (just pay) a

deposit on a small house near Heathrow airport. Suddenly she no longer knows if

she is doing the right thing: all three of the proposals mean major changes in her

lifestyle. She (16) ____ (hope) for a promotion at Arbol; she (17) _____ (try) to

schedule an appraisal interview for months, and now she understands why her boss

(18) ____ (repeatedly postpone) it. But taking on her boss' job would undoubtedly

mean moving to South America, probably losing the deposit on the house, and quite

possibly losing Howard.

B)

Last week, I was an accountant in an IT company. This week I’m unemployed. I heard about the job just after I (1) ____(graduate) from the university. I (2) ____ (send) in my curriculum vitae and, after a short interview, they (3) ____ (offer) me the position. Ironically, I (4) _____ (turn down) two other job offers later that week.

After just one month Human Resources manager (5) _____ (call) me into her office and (6) _____ (tell) me that the company’s sales (7) ______ (be) much lower than forecast and they had to lay off the staff. It was “last in, first out”, so I (8) _____ (be made) redundant – I (9) _____ (receive) just one month’s redundancy pay.

I still (10) _____ (feel) shocked, of course, but they say this is a good time for a graduate to seek employment, so I’m fairly sure I (11) ____ (find) something else soon. I (12) _____ (update) my CV and (13) _____ (start) looking through ads again.