In nearly every town or city centre in the UK, on most days of the week you can find one or more people standing in the street 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 respectable 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 streets of London. On a previous(之前的)_____ (28)to New York, one of them had seen homeless people selling a newspaper known as Street 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 sy 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._____.
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