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Touch receptors are spread over all parts of the body, but they are not spread ① evenly. Most of the touch receptors ____ in your fingertips, tongue, and lips. On the tip of each of your fingers, for example, there are about five thousand separate touch receptors. In other parts of the body there are far fewer. In the skin of your back, the touch receptors may be as much as 2 inches apart. You can test this for ③ yourself. Have someone poke you in the back with one, two, or three fingers and try to guess how many fingers the person used. If the fingers are close together, you will probably think ④ it was only one. However, if the fingers are spread far apart, you can feel them individually. Yet if the person does the same thing on the back of your hand with your eyes closed, so that you don't see how many fingers are ⑤ being used, you probably will be able to tell easily, even when the fingers are close together.

In the past several decades, there have been agreements aimed at reducing the debt of poor nations, yet other economic challenges, such as trade barriers, remain ① unresolved. Nontariff trade measures, such as quotas, subsidies, and restrictions on exports, are increasingly prevalent and may be enacted for policy reasons ② having nothing to do with trade. However, exports from countries without the resources to meet the nontariff requirements set by rich nations are ③ adversely affected by these measures. For example, the huge subsidies that rich nations give to their farmers make ____ very difficult for farmers in the rest of the world to compete with them. Another example would be domestic health or safety regulations, which, though not specifically targeting imports, could ⑤ impose significant costs on foreign manufacturers seeking to conform to the importer's market. Industries in developing markets may have more difficulty absorbing these additional costs.

The repairman is called in when the smooth operation of our world has been disrupted, and at such moments our dependence on things normally taken for granted (for example, a toilet that flushes) is brought to vivid awareness. For this very reason, the repairman's presence may make the narcissist uncomfortable. The problem isn't so much that he is dirty or the job is messy. Rather, he seems to pose a challenge to our self-understanding that is somehow fundamental. We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical grid above) brings our shared dependence into view. People may inhabit very different worlds even in the same city, according to their wealth or poverty. Yet we all live in the same physical reality, ultimately, and owe a common debt to the world.