Passage Two: Questions 22-30 In October 2012, I attended a lecture given by the Dalai Lama in a cavernous auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Even without words, the moment would have been _____22_____: one of the world’s spiritual leaders sitting cross-legged in a modern temple of science. Among other things, the Dalai Lama spoke about śūnyatā, translated as “emptiness,” a central concept in Tibetan Buddhism. According to this _____23_____, objects in the physical universe are empty of inherent and independent existence—all meaning attached to them _____24_____ in constructions and thoughts in our minds. As a scientist, I firmly believe that atoms and molecules are real (even if mostly empty space) and exist independently of our minds. _____25_____, I have witnessed _____26_____ how distressed I become when I experience anger or jealousy or insult, all emotional states manufactured by my own mind. The mind is certainly its own _____27_____. As Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “It [the mind] can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often _____28_____ what isn’t there. Or ignore what is. We try to _____29_____ order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these _____30_____, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole. 【題組】22. (A) profound (B) enormous (C) magnificent (D) colossal
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