A few years ago, Lauren Bath was a chef but then she fell in love with travel and started to post pictures on her blog. In less than 18 months, there were over 200,000 people 【小题1】 (read) her blog and companies started paying her to take 【小题2】 (photo) and publish them. She determined 【小题3】 (become) Australia’s first 【小题4】 (profession) photo blogger, which was a 【小题5】 (challenge) job. She first visited Western Australia for work in 2013 and fell in love with northern WA. Some of her favourite photographs 【小题6】 (take) there. It is 【小题7】 (extreme) beautiful, and the Kimberley region, 【小题8】 particular, is unique and untouched. She tries to take every opportunity to get outside and admire the natural world. She wants to use her photography to make 【小题9】 impact on people 【小题10】 haven’t any sense of environmental protection.

It’s never too late 【小题1】 (make) a big career move. You may currently be at a point in your career 【小题2】 you feel stuck, bored, and unmotivated. These could be signs that your current job is not a good fit for you and that your skills and passion lay elsewhere. There are many famous people who have made surprising career 【小题3】 (change). And what this shows is that people’s success often depends on 【小题4】 (find) the courage to make those major career switches. In addition, sometimes you have to do a job that is a poor match in order to figure out what career is suited to you instead.

Everyone knows that Giorgio Armani is one of the world’s top fashion designers. But he didn’t 【小题5】 (true) start his career in the world of fashion. When he was a young man, he joined the Italian army and 【小题6】 (start) working at a military hospital in Verona. Armani left the military in 1953 and made a career change. He became a(n) 【小题7】 (sell) in a clothing department. By the mid-60s he was designing his own clothes and in 1975, he set 【小题8】 his own company, Armani. By following his 【小题9】 (create) passion and talent, Armani became one of 【小题10】 most successful fashion designers in the world.

A Chinese factory, called “mother-friendly factory”, has arranged flexible working for the women who work there. This measure allows them 【小题1】 (balance) their careers with caring for their children.

Mothers often have to make a tough 【小题2】 (decide) in rural areas—whether to stay home to raise their children or work elsewhere to contribute financially.

Gong Qin, a worker at the factory, now and then glances over at her 4-year-old daughter with a smile. It brings her comfort to see her child playing with friends nearby while she focuses 【小题3】 her task. “My little girl is considerate and never 【小题4】 (bother) me during work,” Gong said with pride.

Gong began working at the factory eight years ago, and when she 【小题5】(face) with the challenge of her husband working away from home, she suggested 【小题6】 (bring) her children to work. To her delight, the factory welcomed her suggestion. Since then, Gong’s son has stayed with her in the workshop after school, where he and other children engage in playful learning 【小题7】 complete their homework.

Zhang Tiantian, a manager, says the factory employs over 120 women, 80 percent of 【小题8】 are mothers with young children. Around 50 mothers work together with their children year-round.

To further support children's development, the mother-friendly factory has established 【小题9】 parent-child canteen with nutritious meals, repaired 16 【小题10】 (apartment) for mothers and children, and organized volunteer-led after-school care.