单选题 通读下面的短文,掌握其大意。然后,从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

In nearly every town or city cendive in the UK, on most days of the week you can find one or more people standing in the sdiveet selling a magazine

21 The Big Issue.These people are all

22  but they are not begging for money.

23  they are selling the magazine as a means(手段)of

24 a small but respecdiv living.The Big Issue magazine was

25 in 1991 by Jon Bird and Gordon Roddick after they

26 that there were many homeless people who were

27 on the sdiveets of London.On a previous (之前的)

28 to New York, one of them had seen homeless people selling a newspaper known as Sdiveet News

29 they decided to set up something

30 in the British capital.Nowadays, The Big Issue has

31 all over the UK and there are even different versions(版本)of the magazine in different parts of the

32 The sellers buy each magazine from the organization for seventy pence and then sell it to a

33 for one pound fifty.By working with The Big Issue, many people have been

34 to escape from homelessness, and

35 many of them have moved on to new jobs and new lives.____.


【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】词义辨析题。几乎在英国的每座城镇或每个市中心,你可以在一周的大部分时间发现有人站在街道上卖一种被叫作《大志》的杂志。spelt意为“被拼写”;printed意为“被印刷”;stuck意为“被卡住”;called意为“被叫作”。根据句意可知,D为正确答案。