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新概念英语第三册 Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
What is the most important thing for a tramp?
It has been ______ that everyone lives by ________(sell)something.
In the light of=___________ this statement, teachers live by selling __________, philosophers by selling ________ and priests by selling spiritual ________.
________ it may be possible to measure the ______of material good in terms of money, it is _________(extreme) difficult to estimate the true value of the services _______ people perform for us. There are times _______ we would ________(willing) give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge ______ a surgeon a high fee for _______(offer) us precisely this service.
The conditions of society are such that ______ have to be paid for in the same way that _______ are paid for at a shop.
Everyone _____ something to sell.
Tramps seem to be the only ________(except) to this general rule.
Beggars almost sell _________ as human being to arouse the_____of passers-by.
But ______ tramps are not beggars.
They have_________to sell and_______ nothing from others.
In seeking ________(independent), they do not sacrifice their______ dignity.
A tramp may ask you for _______, but he will never ask you to______ _______ for him.
He has deliberately ________(choose) to lead the life he leads and is fully _______ of the consequences. He may never be sure ______ the next meal is coming from, but his is _____ _____ the thousands of anxieties ______afflict other people.
His few ________ possessions make it _________for him to move from place ____ place with ease=____.
By having to sleep in the open, he gets far ________(close) to the world of ______ than most of us ever do. He may_____, beg, or _______occasionally to keep himself_____; he may even, in times of real need, do ___ ______work; but he will never sacrifice his _________