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Poor Martin lost his work and was trying to find a job．One day he read in the newspaper that a man was 1 to work in a zoo．He was very 2 and went to the boss of the zoo to ask for the job．The boss told him that their monkey had just died and it would be two months 3 they could get another one, so they wanted him to take the monkey’s place．
As soon as he heard this, Martin got angry and shouted, “You want me to take the place of a monkey!Take this place yourself．You look more like a monkey than I do．” “Don’t expect it like that,” said the boss, “I know you don’t look like a monkey, but we’ll 4 you up．” Martin thought about it for a while．Though he didn’t like the idea, he had to make a living after all．So he 5 the job in the end．
The next day Martin started to work．It wasn’t 6 ．The only thing he didn’t like was the tiger in the cage next to him．But, as there were strong bars(铁栏杆) 7 them, he soon got used to his neighbour．
One afternoon he climbed up to the top of the bars．Suddenly he missed his footing and fell not on his own side of the bars, but into the tiger’s cage．That great animal was asleep at the time, but the noise of Martin’s fall woke his up．Martin had to 8 the bars again quickly to get back into his won cage．He tried to get up, but he had hurt his feet so badly that he couldn’t move．He hid his face in his hands so as not to see the tiger coming．The next few seconds seemed like hours．Then he 9 the tiger whispered in his ear, “Don’t be 10 , old man, I’m in the same boat as you．”
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