試題詳解

26.
(A) detesting
(B) enchanting
(C) inhibiting
(D) assimilating

Passage 2: Questions 27-31

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we
can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When
will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the
problems of the human heart in (27) with itself which alone can make good writing
because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
and teach himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything
(28) is (29) the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story
and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

The writer's duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by
lifting his heart, by reminding him (30) the courage and honor and hope and pride and
compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need
not merely (31) the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him
endure and prevail.