Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and

during his holidays to pay for his education.【21】this ,he managed to get to the university, but it was【22】expensive to study there that during the holidays he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time【23】enough money to pay for his studies.

【24】he managed to get a job in a butcher's shop during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night .In the shop, he learnt to cut meat up quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to ", all the serving while he went into a room behind the shop to the accounts. In the hospital,【25】he was, of course, allowed【26】only the simplest job, like【27】to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher's shop and at the hospital, Dick had to wear white clothes.

One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she【28】an operation. The woman was already feeling【29】at the thought of the operation before he【30】to get her, but when she saw Dick, that finished her. "No! No!" she cried, "Not my butcher! I won't be operated on by my butcher!"

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A．Although

B．In spite of

C．No matter

D．Though