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According to the context, choose the best words or phrases to fill in the blank space. Each question constitutes
2% of the total grade.
I.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have _1._ my life: the longing for love, the search
for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown
me _2._, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy _3 ._ great that I would often have
sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have _4._ it, next, because it relieves
loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into
the cold unfathomable lifeless _5._. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a
mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision ofthe heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I
sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-1 have found.
With equal passion I have sought _6._. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to
know why the stars shine. And I have tried to _?._the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway
above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity
brought me back to _8._. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims
tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty,
and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too
9.
This has been my life. I have found it _lO._Iiving, and would gladly live it again ifthe chance were
offered me. 【題組】3. (A) so (B) hardly (C) barely (D) nevertheless
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