V. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate What I Have Lived for Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These 1 ................ , like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, 2 ................ it brings ecstasy — ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life 3 ................ a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness — that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, 4 ................ , because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I 5 ................ , and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what — at last — I have found. With 6 ................ passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, 7 ................ not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity 8 ................ me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what 9 ................ life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I, too, suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again 10 ................ the chance were offered me. The above passage was written in 1956 and became the prologue to Russell’s autobiography. It is regarded by many as a moving humanistic answer to the question “What can be the meaning of a person’s life”.