高中英语语法填空:短文题型基础练习 Test 6

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed 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 hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching the very verge of despair.

I have 　61　 (seek) love, first, because it brings ecstasy — ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves 　62　 (lonely)—that terrible loneliness 　63　 one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it 　64　 (final), because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is 　65　 I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know 　66　 the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power 　67　 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, 　68　 (lead) upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. 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 suffer.

This has been my life. I have found itworth 　69　 (live), and would 　70　 (glad) live it again if the chance were offered me.