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Certainly dustmen prefer to be known as "Reuse Collection and Disposal Officers". You may think that this
is rather
1 , and it is better to call a spade a spade. But dustmen can be as
2 as people of any other
occupation, though we must
3 that their job is not a
4 one in the world. We often take dustmen for granted.
Perhaps because they usually come very early in the morning, before most people are
5 . We are likely to
forget their
6 . Our dustbins are
7 regularly, but we
8 stop to think about the men who do this. However,
it is one of the most important jobs in the world, and when there are no dustmen to
9 the rubbish, the general
10 soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Recently, the dustmen of England went on strike for higher
wages.
During the first few days it was regarded as a
11 . But when the first two weeks had passed, and the
dustbins were overflowing in nearly every backyard in the country, the joke did not seem so
12 any more.
13 the strike continued, people could not
14 the hills of rubbish around their dustbins, and they looked for other
places in which to
15 it. Even Leicester Square, in the heart of West End of London, was
16 high with plastic
bags full of smelly rubbish. This was a(n)
17 attraction that the people of London were not at all
18 to see.
Even when the strike was over, it took several weeks for the country to get cleaned up completely. Perhaps now
the English people appreciate the work of
19 dustmen rather more
20 and won't take them for granted any
more.
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