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福师1108考试批次《高级英语阅读二》复习题一及参考答案 教学中心 专业 学号 姓名 成绩 注：考试时间为100分钟，答案写在答题纸上 本复习题页码标注所用教材为： 教材名称 作者 出版社 版次 定价 　高级英语阅读材料一 　林宇 　 　 　 如学员使用其他版本教材，请参考相关知识点 Reading comprehension: 60% Passage 1 APPETITE One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices. By appetite, of course, I dont mean just the lust for food, but any condition of unsatisfied desire, any burning in the blood that proves you want more than youve got, and that you havent yet used up your life. Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their hearts desire, but sorrier still for those who did. I got mine once only, and it nearly killed me, and Ive always preferred wanting to having since. For appetite, to me, is this state of wanting, which keeps ones expectations alive. I remember learning this lesson long ago as a child, when treats and orgies were few, and when I discovered that the greatest pitch of happiness was not in actually eating a toffee but in gazing at it beforehand. True, the first bite was delicious, but once the toffee was gone one was left with nothing, neither toffee nor lust. Besides, the whole toffeeness of toffees was imperceptibly diminished by the gross act of having eaten it. No, the best was in waning it, in sitting and looking at it, when one tasted an inexhaustible treasure -house of flavours. So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction. In wanting a peach, or a whisky, or a particular texture or sound, or to be with a particular friend. For in this condition, of course, I know that the object of desire is always at its most flawlessly perfect. Which is why I would carry the preservation of a