单选题 Three passions, simple but very strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and sympathy for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me back and forth, accompanying me through my life, making me suffering with anxiety and despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings such uncontrolled feelings that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves my loneliness that I would follow it all the way. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen the vision of the heaven that poets have imagined. This is what -- at last -- I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to understand the world around me. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Cries of pain re - echo in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to wipe out the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

单选题 In the first paragraph, the writer meant to say that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推断题。作者将他的三大感情比喻成风，由此可推断这些感情是难以控制的。B)他的感情不止是简单、单纯，还很强烈控制了他的生活；C)不是要表达作者可以掌控自己的生活；D)作者不能控制自己的三大感情。

单选题 The writer sought love, because ______.

单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE?

单选题 From the fourth paragraph, we know that ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推断题。最后一句说明作者想除去人类的苦难却办不到，而自己也承受着折磨。由此推断经受苦难是生活所必须的。A)没有直接提到作者爱天堂的生活；B)文章中没有说作者不爱人间的生活； D)没有线索证明苦难使人邪恶。

单选题 The writer thought his life worth living probably because ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推断题。作者在最后一段中说如果有机会他愿意快乐地再活一次，说明他热爱生活。B)不是因为他过得很愉快才觉得自己活得值得钓；C)没有提及作者不想死的内容；D)文章没有说作者是不是信奉上帝。