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 16-20題爲題組

Mahatma Gandhi went from city to city, village to village collecting funds for the Charkha Sangh. During one of his tours he 16 a meeting in Orissa. After his speech a poor old woman got up. She was bent with age, her hair was gray and her clothes were in tatters. The volunteers tried to stop her, but she fought her way to 17 Gandhi was sitting. "I must see him," she insisted and went up to Gandhi to touch his feet. Then from the folds of her sari she brought out a copper coin and placed it at his feet. Gandhi picked up the coin and put it away carefully.

Jamnalal Bajaj, who 18 Charkha Sangh's money, asked Gandhi for the coin, but Gandhi refused. "I have donated thousands of dollars for the Charkha Sangh," Jamnalal Bajaj said laughingly, "yet you won't trust me with a copper coin?"

"This copper coin is worth much more than those thousands," Gandhi said. "If a man is very rich and he 19 a thousand or two, it doesn't mean much. But this coin was perhaps all that the poor woman possessed. She gave me all she had. That was very 20 of her. What a great sacrifice she made. That is why I value this copper coin more than a hundred million rupees."