Practicing for a telephone interview will give you confidence that you wont blow the real thing. ask one of your parents' or a friend to conduct a mock interview with you. have him or her phone you and ask an interviewers questions. its also to get a spouses' or father's-in-laws critique of your answers. ask one of them to listen in, or, whats even more useful, tape record the mock interview for later analysis. pay attention not only to the content of your answers, but also to the voice quality; is your's clear, without too many "uhm's" "you knows," and "likes"

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.