Colin Hunter is a young reporter on a local newspaper. Read this account of his experience after working there for a few months. Complete the passage, using the correct word or phrase. The first letter of each word is given. The life of a young reporter 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 Wednesday 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 a book r……, even though most of our readers only read the s…… pages of the newspaper, 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 a film c…… but I can’t criticize the films because the proprietor of the newspaper also owns the local cinema. If I could draw, I expect they would make me a c……! The only other j…… on our staff is Saily. She does the woman’s page and also the f…… page, which she copies out of the colour s ……s in the national Sunday papers. The most important person in the office is Jack, the advertising manager. As he says: “All these c …… a ……s, the announcements 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 ……