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After I finished school, I began to look for work. Now, several months later, I __ (not) the kind of work I was interested in yet.

One morning I received a phone call. “ __ that Jenny Smith?” a

I went to see Mr. Brown that afternoon. While __ me questions, he looked at me, up and down, carefully. At last he said,” Ok, I’ll __ you have the job. “My heart started __ faster. Would he __ me on as a laboratory assistant? I wanted to become a scientist or an engineer some day. When he __ again, I couldn’t believe my ears. What he __ was not a future scientist, but a model!