The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. When know that this is1 , but all too often we recognize this truth 2 in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly 3 that it is no more.
A recent 4 re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized 5 a serious heart attack and had been in intensive 6 for several days. It was not a pleasant place.
One morning, I had to have some additional 7 ，so I had to be wheeled across the count yard on a gurney（n.轮床）.
8 we got out from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Just the 9 of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was---how warming, how sparking, how brilliant! I 10 around to see whether anyone else loved the sun's golden glow, but everyone was 11 ,most with eyes fixed on the ground. At that moment, I came to realize 12 gifts are precious----but we are too 13 about them.
Hold fast to life, but not so fast, or you cannot 14 .This is the second side of life's 15 , the opposite pole of its paradox（悖论）：we must 16 our losses, and learn how to let go.
This is not an easy 17 to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, and that 18 we desire with the full force of our passionate being, can, and, will, be ours. But then life 19 , keeping us faced with realities, and 20 but surely this truth dawns upon us.
1．A．easy B．clear C．true D．good
2．A．only B．also C．well D．even
3．A．notice B．realize C．worry D．concern
4．A．report B．story C．accident D．experience
5．A．during B．since C．after D．until
6．A．care B．charge C．control D．need
7．A．doctors B．medicine C．instructions D．tests
8．A．Before B．Till C．As D．While
9．A．warmth B．light C．colors D．image
10．A．looked B．turned C．walked D．ran
11．A．watching B．hurrying C．working D．sitting
12．A．disease's B．art's C．health's D．life's
13．A．honest B．curious C．careless D．anxious
14．A．hold on B．take over C．give in D．let go
15．A．coin B．note C．bill D．check
16．A．accept B．admire C．remember D．forgive
17．A．skill B．failure C．lesson D．task
18．A．whatever B．whichever C．however D．whoever
19．A．comes up B．goes off C．dies away D．moves along
20．A．quickly B．firmly C．slowly D．suddenly