Question 94
MediumOriginal questionManager: So you'd like to work here on weekends. Have you worked in a bookshop before?
Neha: No. I've worked in my uncle's during the holidays, though.
Manager: That's different.
Neha: It is. But the customers are the same people. They come in looking for one thing, they don't quite know its name, and they're a little to ask.
Manager: (smiles) That's true of both. What's your favourite book?
Neha: Can I give you an honest answer or a good one?
Manager: Try the honest one.
Neha: I haven't read many books this year. I've been preparing for exams. But I read the backs of hundreds of them in the library, trying to decide which one I'd read first when the exams are over.
Manager: That's an answer.
Neha: It's the true one. I thought you'd rather have that than me pretending I'd read something clever.
Manager: I would. And knowing what's on the back of a hundred books is most of this job, . Can you start on Saturday?
"Knowing what's on the back of a hundred books is most of this job, as it happens." Here "as it happens" suggests that this fact is
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
Explanation
The phrase introduces something true that fits the situation, often a little surprisingly.
What Neha thought was an odd confession turns out to be exactly the skill the job needs.
Worth noting
"As it happens" does not mean "sometimes happens". It means "as it turns out".
- Concept
- Understanding a common phrase
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