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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.”