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专业八级改错练习－54
Middle age has its compensations. Youth is bound hand and foot with the shackles of
专业八级改错练习－54
Middle age has its compensations. Youth is bound hand and foot with the shackles of public opinion. Middle age enjoys remember that when i left the school i said to myself: __1__ "Hence forward. I can get up when i like and go to bed when i like." That of course was an exaggeration, and i soon found that whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to achieve it. But by the time you have reached middle age you discovered how __2__ much freedom it was worth to sacrifice in order to achieve any aim that __3__ you have on view. When i was a boy i was tortured by shyness, __4__ and middle age has to a great extent brought me a relief of this. I __5__ have now no such feeling and i save myself much discomfort. I always hated cold water, but for many years i bath in cold seas because __6__ i wanted to be like everybody. __7__ It was until quite late in life that i discovered how easy it was __8__ to say:"i don't know." i find with middle age no one expects me to walk twenty-five miles, or to play a scratch game of golf, or to dive from a height of thirty feet. This is all to the goo