When I come ⑴                 a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the⑵               side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to⑶               in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to suffering ⑷                 , ⑸             out half of it or keeping the text without the title. Therefore, the scissors（剪子）would stay before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful result.

Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your attention. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be ⑹                up.

But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left ⑺             . Thus you are⑻                  in a difficult position and feel sad. How ⑼                that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life changes greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

In fact that is what⑽              is like: we are often faced with the two⑾         

sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that your ⑿        

 is drawn to one thing only before we get into another. The ⒀              may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind. I ⒁               remember a philosopher's remarks, “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual⒂            

may not be a bad one.

1. across  2. opposite  3. keep  4. damage  5. leaving 6. given  7. behind  8. struck  9. come  10. life  11. opposite  12. attention  13. former  14. still  15. choice