<p>One of my friends made the same mistake tlqkf, was kicking himself about it later.</p>
<p>It was teasing; I've really got to go now, I've been delaying setting out for school, got caught up in this ( at this rate, probably will miss the bus :) )</p>
<p>I never really did well on any of the fictional passages; I put down "because she was the only woman" cuz it was written during early 1900's and 'teasing' seemed too immature as an ETS answer..</p>
<p>Agree withi Julina on Georgia. It said something like...(if this is what we're talkinga bout)...</p>
<p>(bunch of adversities, etc etc)... she had managed a beat or two! It listed about 6-7 bad things she had to deal with as a newspaper reporter, and the only payoff was a beat or two (beat being defined by the footnote as a common covered subject). I may be reading b/t the lines here but a "Beat or two!" does not compensate for all her strife.</p>
<p>Therefore, she must not have been reluctant to leave her job and the exclamation point after "beat or two" served as an exagerration.</p>