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[简答题]When I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.
Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear.
Active happiness—not mere satisfaction or contentment—often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener; bird songs ape sweeter; the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable. Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with y
[单项选择]When the Italian poet Dante was （） from his home in Florence, he decided to walk from Italy to Paris to search for the real meaning of life.
A. exerted
B. expired
C. exiled
D. exempted
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To develop a little the line of the poet Edmund Spenser, who
in the sixteenth century wrote, " Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song":
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sufficient warning we could, but will{{U}} (3) {{/U}}recalling the
dreadful things that Thames oarsmen say a mere mouthful will do to anyone{{U}}
(4) {{/U}}. Probably Spenser was using the word "sweet" in the sense
of "dear" rather than of{{U}} (5) {{/U}}. Not necessarily though, for
the river was still, a century after Spenser, clear enough for{{U}} (6)
{{/U}}to dive into it from the terraces of their waterside mansions.
However, Spenser would probably{{U}} (7) {{/U}}to learn that today the
river is chemically in better shape than it has been for many years—a fact borne
out by the{{U}} (8) {{/U}}of fish now to be found, and angled for, in
the reaches
