专业八级改错练习 第98期

Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in
old age. One of these is due absorption in the past. It does not __1__
work to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in __2__
sadness about friends who are dead. One's thoughts must be directed
to the future, and to things which there is something to be done. __3__
This is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing
weight. It is easy to think for oneself that ont's emotions __4__
are used to be more vivid than they are, and one's mind more __5__
keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it
will probably not be true.
The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in hope of __6__
sucking vigour from its vitality. When your children are growing up __7__
they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as
interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to
become a burden to them, except they are unusually callous. I do not __8__
mean that one should be without interest in them, but one's interest
should be contemplatory and, if possible, philanthropic, but not __9__
unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon
as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing
to the length of infantry, find this difficult. __10__