填空题

Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most difficult to (47) in everything else do not usually wish to have mom of it than they have already. It is not likely that everyone is (48) in this. It shows, rather, that the ability to judge rightly and separate the true from the false, which is essentially what is called good sense or (49) , is by nature equal in all men; end thus that our opinions differ not because some men are better (50) with reason than others, but only because we direct our thoughts along different paths, and do not consider the same things. For it is not enough to have a good mind; what is most important is to (51) it rightly.
The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices; and those who walk very slowly can (52) much further, if they always keep to the direct road, than those who run end go astray.
For my part, I have never (53) my mind to be more perfect than average in any way; I have, in fact, often wished that my thoughts were as quick, or my imagination as precise and distinct, or my (54) as capacious or prompt, as those of seine other men. And I know of no other qualities than these which make for the (55) of die mind; for as to reason, or good sense, in as much as it alone makes ns men end distinguishes us from the beasts, I am quite willing to believe that it is whole and entire in each’ of ns, and to follow in the common (56) of the philosophers who say that there are differences of more or less only among the accidents, end not among the forms, or natures, of the individuals of a single species.

• [A] misunderstood[I] presumed
• [B] satisfy[J] illusion
• [C] design [K] reason
• [D] opinion [L] mistaken
• [E] advance [M] perfect
• [F] brain [N] memory
• [G] endowed [O] apply
• [H] perfection