THE BEST RECRUITING AGENTS (Intermediate Level - Reading Test)

THE BEST RECRUITING AGENTS (Intermediate Level - Reading Test) In 1849 a servant girl wrote home to her brother from Port Adelaide, South  Australia: "I have accepted a situation at £20 per annum, so you can tell the  servants in your neighbourhood not to stay in England for such wages as from £4 to  £8 a year, but come here." Letters such as these, which were circulated from the kitchen  to kitchen and from attic to attic in English homes, were the best recruiting agents for  the colonies, which were then so desperately in need of young women to serve the  pioneers who were trying to create a new life for themselves in their chosen  countries. Other girls read about the much better prospects overseas in newspapers  and magazines, which also published advertisements giving details of free or  assisted passages. EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as: COLUMN A       ...