专八改错练习第十四篇：
Middle age has its compensations. Youth is boundhand and foot with the shackles of public opinion.Middle age enjoys freedom.
I remember that when i left the school i said to myself: __1__
"Hence forward. I can get up when i like and go to bedwhen i
like." That of course was an exaggeration, and i soonfound 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 good and makes life
pleasant, but i should no longer care if they do. That is what makes __9__
youth unhappy, the vehement anxiety to be like other people, and
that is what makes middle age intolerable, the reconciliation with __10__
oneself.
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