III. 綜合測驗:以下兩篇短文,共有 10 個空格,為第 21 至 30 題,請依各篇
短文文意,選出一個最適合該空格的答案。
▲ 閱讀下文後,作答第 21–25 題
At a certain point of your life, you come to understand most people are neither for you
nor against you; they are thinking about themselves. No matter 21 hard you try to please,
some people are not going to love you. The things you learn in 22 aren’t simple things
such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to 23 energy in anxiety, and you
learn that self-pity and resentment are the most dangerous emotions. You discover
how to 24 your stress. You find that the world admires talent but ignores character.
Eventually, you need to build up the meaning of your life out of your own past, out of your
affections and faiths, and out of humankind’s experience that 25 you. You are the only one
who can put the meaning together into a unique pattern, which defines who you are.
【題組】25. (A) gets away with (B) gets rid of (C) is up to (D) is passed onto