He thought that he might be able to avoid paying some of his taxes by taking advantages of the ______ in the law.
Plastic bags are useful for holding many kinds of food, _______ their cleanness, toughness and low cost. But they are harmful to environment.
The new-model computer ______ all the old ones in both capacity and calculating speed.
It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it _21_. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often _22_. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it _23_ drink, you are forgetting the hangover. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, _24_ by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian (体弱多病的人) and most people would need something more _25_. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, _26_ supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be _27_ as a personal rule of life. But I think that _28_ personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be _29_ with happiness.There are a great many people who have all the _30_ conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, _31_, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the __32_ must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on _33_, and are happy as long as external conditions are _34_. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an _35_ night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too _36_ to be forgotten. People propose to themselves someone paramount objective, and _37_ all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so __38_ to grow rich that to this end he __39_ health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no _40_ remains to him except harrying (折磨) other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.
West Lake boasts a fine landscape making tourists ______ of the picture of a fairy tale.
A month has ______ and there is no sign of the situation getting any better.