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Soon after Dave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no 小题1: of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to 小题2: (动词) his own real estate agency(房地产公司).
He found a nice office, 小题3: (buy) some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming 小题4: the door of his office.
“It’s my first customer!” he thought. He quickly picked up 小题5: (冠词) telephone and pretended to be very busy 小题6: an important call from someone in New York 小题7: wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.
The man knocked at the door 小题8: this was going on, came in and waited 小题9: (polite) for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, “I’m from the telephone company, and I 小题10: (send) here to connect your telephone.”