Advanced Anecdotes in American English

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      Soon afer Dave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no children of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency. 

      He found a nice office, bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office.

     "It's my first customer!" he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

     The man knocked at the door while this was going on, came in and waited politely for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, "I'm from the telephone company, and I was sent here to connect your telephone."

Glossary: 

Real estate agency: وكالة عقارية

Customer: زبون

A- Answer these questions:

1-How did Dave get money to set up his real estate agency?

2-What did he do to set it up?

3-What happened after he had been in his office for a few hours?

4-What did he think, and then do about this?

5-What did the man do?

6-And what did he say when Dave finished talking?