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TASK 3.Colin Hunter is a young reporter on a local newspaper, The Farley Argus. Read this account of his experience after working there for a few months. Complete the passage, using the correct word or phrase from those you have seen above. To help you, the first letter of each word is given. The life of a young r………… on a local newspaper is not easy. When you start, you imagine yourself as a l…….. w……….., commenting on world affairs so intelligently that the paper receives hundreds of r…………s’ letters congratulating you on the e……….. . In fact, you have to be everything, without being anyone. On Wednesdays, I do the h…………..s, usually saying something nice about my sign and my girlfriend’s. On Thursdays, I write the g………… c…………, though in my case it only concerns the Mayor and his friends. On Fridays, I am book r…………, even though most of our readers only read the s………….. pages of the Argus, and on Saturdays, I write those, too. I watch football matches in the pouring rain and think of wonderful h…………s, but the s………….. changes them, and often changes the result, too. I am also film c………… but I can’t criticise the films because the p………… of the Argus also owns the local cinema. If I could draw, I expect they would make me the c………….! The only other j…………. on our staff is Sally. She does the woman’s page, and also the f………… page, which she copies out of the colour supplements in the national Sunday papers. The most important person in the office is Jack, the advertising manager. As he says: ’All these classified a…………..s, the a…………s of births and marriages and the situations v………… c………. for people looking for jobs and so on, pay for the rubbish you write.’ I hope that one day I will be able to write his o…… .