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一 Middle age has its compensations. Youth is bound hand 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 bed when i like. That of course was an exaggeration, and i soon found 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 dont 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 oneself.__10 1.去掉 the to leave school 表示 “毕业，离开学校” ，当中不能加定冠词，否则就表示离开特点的一所学 校。 2.^discovered--have 由 by 引导的时间状语从句主语一般都用完成体，所以这里应在 discovered 前加上 have。 3.worth--worthwhile 这句话如果用正常的语序说应该是： it is worth to sacrifice how much freedom in order to achieve any aim,, 这样看显然 worth 的用法是错的，应改为 worthwhile ，原句的意思是： 但是当你步入中年时便会发现，为了实现一个目标值得你牺牲多少自由 ,, 。 4.on--in 应该是 have something in view 表示“看得见 ,, ” ，所以应改为 in