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PART IV CLOZE [15 min.]
Directions: Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. Appetite is the (26)______ of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous (27)______ and juices. (28)______ appetite, of course, I don’t mean just the lust for food, but any condition of (29)______ desire, any burning in the blood that proves you want more than you’ve got, and that you haven’t yet (30)______ your life. Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart’s desire, but sorrier (31)______ for those who did. I got mine once only, and it nearly killed me, and I’ve always preferred wanting (32)______ since.
For appetite, to me, is this state if wanting, which keeps one’s (33)______ alive. I remember learning this lesson long ago as a child, when treats and orgies were (34)______, and when I discovered that the greatest pitch of happiness was not in actually eating a toffee, but in (35)______ it beforehand. True, the first bite was delicious, (36)______ once the toffee was gone one was left with nothing, neither toffee nor lust.
So for me, one of the keenest (37)______ of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction. In this condition, of course, I know that the object of desire is always at its most flawlessly (38)______, which is why I would carry the preservation of appetite (39)______ of deliberate fasting, simply because I think that appetite is (40)______ to lose, too precious to be bludgeoned into insensibility by satiation and over-doing it.
26.
A. wanting
B. interest
C. keenness
D. eagerness
正确答案是
27.
A. dishes
B. meals
C. smells
D. flavors
正确答案是
28.
A. By
B. With
C. Through
D. Of
正确答案是
29.
A. dissatisfied
B. unsatisfied
C. dissatisfying
D. unsatisfying
正确答案是
30.
A. used up
B. used all
C. used over
D. finished
正确答案是
31.
A. more
B. the same
C. even
D. still
正确答案是
32.
A. to having
B. rather than having
C. instead of having
D. but not having
正确答案是
33.
A. wanting
B. desiring
C. curiosity
D. expectation
正确答案是
34.
A. popular
B. many
C. few
D. a few
正确答案是
35.
A. tasting
B. imagining
C. biting
D. gazing at
正确答案是
36.
A. but
B. however
C. and
D. for
正确答案是
37.
A. happiness
B. delights
C. pleasures
D. well-being
正确答案是
38.
A. good
B. best
C. perfect
D. perfection
正确答案是
39.
A. at a degree
B. to an extent
C. to some extent
D. to the extent
正确答案是
40.
A. too good
B. so good
C. too hard
D. too easy
正确答案是