The Best Job in the Word 2

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Breaking News English

5th March, 2009

The world will soon who will get the “best job in the world”. The position is for a caretaker to live on and look after a tropical island off the of Queensland, Australia. Duties include relaxing on the island, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef, and writing a blog to the area. Other responsibilities are to feed the fish, clean the pool and collect the mail. The job website, islandreefjob.com, tells : “There are over 1,500 species of fish living in the Great Barrier Reef. Don’t worry. You won’t need to them all.” The successful applicant will get a salary of nearly US$100,000 for the six months. Officials from Queensland’s department announced on Tuesday that they were now at 50 candidates. Unsurprisingly, over 35,000 people for the job.

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The next stage in the selection is to get the list of candidates down to 11. The tourism board will ten people. Visitors to the website will choose an eleventh person. The public can look at the video applications of all 50 caretakers. The eleven lucky finalists will then fly to Hamilton Island for a interview. The winner will be announced on May 6, and the job starts on July 1. The shortlist of 50 includes people from 22 countries. They include dancers, chefs, scientists and students and they all want a of paradise. Queensland Tourism Minister Desley Boyle said there was much discussion to down the list to 50. He told reporters, “it boiled down to…the motivation and professionalism of the applicants and their ' ' with the job and Tourism Queensland”. narrow 
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From: 

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0903/090305-jobs.html

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Match the following words from the article, column A, with their synonym in the column B.

   COLUMN A    COLUMN B 
1. PROMOTE   POST
2. LOOK AFTER   JOB
3. POSITION   REDUCE
4. FIT   PRESENT
5. NARROW DOWN   WENT FOR
6. MAIL   SELECT
7. SELECT   PUBLICIZE
8. APPLIED   MATCH
9. PROCESS   CARE FOR
10. CURRENT   METHOD

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