I stood by my window overlooking the __38__， having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something __39__ in life.

　　As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and drive off, I __40__ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its __41__ and a basket of rags and bottles on its back­carriage. He __42__ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already __43__ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.

　　Several thoughts __44__ my mind as I watched him work. He wasn't well­dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) __45__ T­shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern __46__would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed __47__ with life. There he was, working hard at his small business, __48__ at passers­by and stopping to chat now and then __49__ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

　　There was a noticeable touch of __50__ in the way he seemed to be doing things— __51__ the windscreen(挡风玻璃)，then standing back to admire it; scrubbing(擦净) the wheels and __52__， standing back to see what they looked like after the scrub.

　　It was a __53__ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a __54__ if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt __55__ of myself. Young as I am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.

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