You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no “proper” underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. _____1_____
Poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt-and-illness-stained mattress. The sheets have long since been used for diapers. _____2_____ This is a smell of urine, sour milk, and spoiling food sometimes joined with the strong smell of long-cooked onions. _____3_____ It is the smell of the outdoor privy. It is the smell of the milk which has gone sour because the refrigerator long has not worked, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the smell of rotting garbage. _____4_____ Shovels cost money. 【題組】3
(A)I can call for help, but who should I call?
(B)I could bury it, but where is the shovel?
(C)If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D)Even the cheapest soap has to be saved for the baby’s diapers.
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