四级练习2014.02.12 office, market, started, position, newspaper

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Bill Grant was a famous newspaper editor in the United States.(1)__________________. He started as a clerk in 1948. Later he became the editor.That was the position he held until he retired.Bill wrote his first story for the paper the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929.When the first news of the stock market crash came into the office,(2)_______________.The editor liked it so much that he used the story.And he didn't make any changes into it.After that the editor decided Bill should be a writer.He felt that Bill was not using his ability working as a clerk.After the first story Bill became especially interested in financial news.But he wrote stories on just about everything.In 1945 he spent 5 months in Europe.His editor had decided he should write about the end of World War II.(3)_________________.A story he had written on war won the National Newspaper's Award.Bill took the prize but he gave all the credit to his editor.It was just before Christmas in 1976 that he learned that he had cancer.Six months later he was dead.But he never stopped his work as an editor.The day before he died he had spent a full day at the office.

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