Life and the World Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of f

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问题 Life and the World
   Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with【C1】______ at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great【C2】______.
   What are changes of empires, the wreck of dynasties, with the【C3】______ which supported them; what is the birth and the extinction of【C4】______ and of political systems to life? What are the revolutions of the globe which we 【C5】______, and the operations of the elements of which it is【C6】______, compared with life? What is the universe of stars, and suns, 【C7】______ this inhabited earth is one, and their motions, and their【C8】______, compared with life? Life, the great miracle, we 【C9】______ not, because it is so miraculous. It is well that we are thus【C10】______ by the familiarity of what is at once so certain and so【C11】______ , from an astonishment which would otherwise【C12】______ and overawe the functions of that which is its object... What is life? 【C13】______ and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we【C14】______ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered, and our infancy【C15】______ but in fragments; we live on, and in living we lose the【C16】______ of life. How vain is it to think that words can【C17】______ the mystery of our being? Rightly used they make evident our【C18】______to ourselves, and this is much. For what we are? Where do we【C19】______? And where do we go? Is birth the commencement, is death the【C20】______ of our being? What is birth and death?
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选项 A、desiring
B、admiration
C、longing
D、comprehension

答案B

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