语法填空 As a listening child,I often heard{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(old) people say:"What dreams I had!"and"If only I had my life to live over."I{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(understand) that these men and women had missed the fullness of life somehow.
But I wasn't going to miss it,I decided at the age of fourteen.In a slightly{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(use) copy book,I made a full list of what I wanted from life.I would be devoted to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(realize) them one by one.{#blank#}5{#/blank#},as years went by,I was middle aged and alone.My children had left to make their own full life somewhere.I,too,didn't realize even half the amount {#blank#}6{#/blank#}what I had planned.One rainy night,I went to the bookstore to get a paperback book to read{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(me) to sleep on.I picked up an Emile Zola book,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}reminded me of something I had read long ago: Zola had said,“To have a child,to plant a tree,to write a book.”That,he said,was a full life!A great stillness grew about me as I realized I had a child,I'd planted a tree,and in fact,I'd even written a book.
Eventually,I came to a clear{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(conclude),and it is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}university one: To live,to struggle,to be in love with life is fulfillment.
