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For most of us, love is the most absorbing subject in
existence. There is an enormous range of meanings in this one little
word: motherly love and self-love, fatherly love and children's love fc
their parents; there is brotherly love and there is the love of one's home and
one's country; there is love of money and there is love of power. Love clearly
includes all of these, but the love in which one can be oneself is the pre-eminent
love for most of us. Love at its fullest can include an enormous range of emotions
and sentiments. It can combine humility with pride, passion with peace, self-
assertion with self-surrender; it can reconcile violence of feeling with tenderness.
"Being in love" is love at its most intense, and is personally focused in a very special
way. Our common speech reflects this fact, as we talk of "falling in love" as if it were
something into which we are precipitated against our will, like falling into a pond.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) very interesting, taking up a lot of one's time
b) the best of all; having better qualities than the
others in the same group
c) attitude based on one's thoughts and feelings
d) modesty
e) satisfaction with something one has achieved;
self-respect
f) self-confidence; ability to speak on one's own
behalf
g) find an agreement between things that are
opposed
h) gentleness
i) cause to happen suddenly and unexpectedly
j) small area of water, often man-made
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E X E R C I S E 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
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