John Shilling is a twenty-year-old student at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. It is a small school (1) different from Cornell University in New York State which is huge and famous. John (2) have gone to any college of his (3) , but he chose this school because of its small size and its excellent (4) in his major field—physics.
He likes Cornell as well as he (5) to. There are just three students in his physics class, (6) the professor often invites the three to his home for dinner. (7) maintaining an "A" average in his (8) , John finds time to play (9) the football and tennis teams, and he has (10) with his girl friend, Linda Spies. They study together in the library (11) go for walks in the nearby meadow. Linda, who is (12) in elementary education, is one of the many college students who give free (13) to children of poor families in a city near Cornell.
John, (14) nearly half his classmate, has a scholarship that pays (15) of his college expense. He works as a laboratory (16) to help pay other bills, and during the summer he earns (17) money at a factory in his hometown, Madison, Wisconsin.
John’s (18) for the future is to teach physics for a few years in a university and then to (19) his life to research in science. First, (20) , he hopes for two years’ experience in another country serving in the Peace Corps.

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