III. Reading Comprehension 　　Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the __1__ love, thesearch for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the __2__ of mankind. These passions, like greatwinds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge of despair. 　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great the I would often sacrificeall the rest of life for a few hours of this __3__. I have sought it, next because it __4__loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of theworld into the cold __5__ lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I hveseen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have __6__.This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—Ihave found. 　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. Ihave wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to __7__ the Pythagorean power bywhich number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. 　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, let upward toward the heavens. But alwayspity brought me back to earth. __8__ of cries of pain reverberate in my hear. Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a heavy burden to their sons, and the wholeworld of loneliness, poverty, and pain __9__ a mockery of what human life should be. I long toalleviate the evil, but I cannot, an I too suffer. 　　This has been my life. I have found it worth __10__, and would gladly live it again if thechance were offered me. (Bertrand Russell, “What I Have Lived For”)
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(A) longing of
(B) longing for
(C) missing for
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