7.
Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage.
A beggar was sitting at the train station
with a bowl full of pencils. A young manager passed by and dropped a dollar in
the bowl. Then he got on the train. Before the doors closed, something came to
his mind and he went back to the beggar, took up some1,
and said, "After all, you are a business person and so am I." Then he
left.
Six months2,
the manager came to a party. The beggar was also there in a suit and tie. The
beggar went up to the manager and said, "You probably don't remember me
but I remember you." Then he3about what had happened six months
before. The manager said, "I do remember that you were begging. What are
you doing here in your suit and tie?"
The beggar replied, "You probably
remember what you did to me that day. You4the
first person in my life who gave my dignity (尊严)
back to me. You took some pencils and said some words to me. After you left, I5to myself, 'What am I doing here?6am
I begging?' I decided to do something helpful to my life. Then I started
working and here I am. I just want to7you
for giving my dignity back to me. What you did for me changed my life."