Then, one morning, a Situations Vacant ad I spotted __3__ a person like me. So, carrying my __4__ typed CV (简历) in an envelope on which I had written both “To and From” __5__, I took a train on a Monday morning to get to the post office, where I could have it weighed, stamped and __6__. Getting off the train, I __7__ the crowd of officegoers out of the station and on to the street. Suddenly, I noticed my envelope was __8__!
I rushed back to the __9__. The train was still there. A __10__ of the compartment in which I travelled ended up with nothing. I waited __11__ for the train to pull away. It hadn't fallen on the tracks either.
The __12__ thing to do was to go home, sit at my typewriter, make a new CV and covering letter and mail it. But losing the envelope was like a bad __13__, so I gave up.
Three weeks passed. I __14__ a letter that referred to my “lost” job application and invited me for a __15__ with the company's managing director. I was __16__.
I soon got the job, and __17__ there as deputy general manager until I took voluntary retirement in 2002.
I still think about my application __18__ its addressee (收信人). I imagine someone found it. He or she might have asked others on the train. Realizing it would be __19__ to a fellow citizen, the finder took it to a post office, stuck the stamps and mailed it. To that __20__ friend, I want to say: Thank you for a little act that proved to be so big for me.
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