It is 11 pm and he’s looking to unwind in front of the television after a long day’s work. Johnson is a single, 32-year-old business executive in charge of marketing and advertising at a sizeable company in the healthcare industry. The story begins one night in September 1994, with Dean Johnson sitting at home in Columbia, South Carolina. In the coming weeks, I heard this story from a number of assistants, including Johnson himself, and every time it left me baffled. To prove his point, he told me about Dean Johnson. He noted that people regularly travelled great distances to attend a seminar titled ‘Becoming a Celebrity Personal Assistant’, run by the ACPA. But despite this, and all the hard work and lack of appreciation that can come with this line of work, he explained, the jobs were still widely sought after. As he sees it, celebrity personal assistants have not always been treated fairly by the press. When I first got in touch with Josef Csongei, the organisation’s president, he was initially reluctant to talk to me because I was a journalist. The organisation describes personal assistants as ‘multitasking’, as ‘possessing the most resourceful, creative, insightful, and results-driven abilities.’ It stands to reason that a city like Los Angeles, which is home to so many of the famous and the semi-famous, would have an Association of Celebrity Personal Assistants (ACPA). Read the passage below and answer questions 1–15. Indian elephants are preferred over African ones due to their large stature.At half-time, players exchange their elephants and mahouts with the other team, which is an old tradition.Elephants with attitude problems do not take part in polo games as it might be risky.When a player misses the ball, the elephant lies down across the goal.The number of goals which a team might score depends on sheer luck.
Using trunks during a game is prohibited to avoid suffocation of the animals.There are two people sitting astride an elephant in a game of elephant polo.The length of the pitch and the width of the goals are the same as in football.
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