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Test 1
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: "I will take an interest in this or that."Such an attempt only (36) ______ the strain of mental effort. A man may (37) ______ great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or (38) ______ . Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are tired to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the (39) ______ labourer, tired out with a hard week's (40) ______ and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the (41) ______ or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about (42) ______ things at the weekend.
It may also be said that (43) ______ , hard-working, useful human beings are divided into two classes: (44) ____________________________________________________ . Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. (45) ___________________________________________ , not only the means of sustenance (生计), but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class. (46) _________________________________________________________ .
