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Reading Comprehension for Beginners - A Typical Shop Worker's Desk

Shop workers probably have the untidiest desks of all. The desks of shop workers are used for a number of purposes. They often have a computer and telephone to take care of paper work, but they also use their desk as a place to lay their various tools as they work at their different tasks. In many machine shops, you will also be surprised at how dirty a shop worker's desk is! Shop workers have to do a variety of physical tasks that often involve greasy equipment. Of course, the grease from the tools and the equipment dirty the desk as the shop worker sits down to do a report or make a telephone call. Shop workers usually don't clean their desk too often as they know that the desks will just get dirty the next time they sit down to have a cup of coffee.

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Shop workers probably have the desks of all. The desks of shop workers are used for a number of purposes. They often have a computer and a to take care of paper , but they also use their desk as a place to lay their various as they work at their different tasks. In many shops, you will also be surprised at how a shop worker's desk is! Shop workers have to do a variety of tasks that often involve greasy equipment. Of course, the grease from the tools and the dirty the desk as the shop worker sits down to do a report or make a telephone call. Shop usually don't clean their desk too often as they know that the desks will just get dirty the next time they to have a cup of coffee.

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