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