填空题

The idea "happiness", to be sure, will not sit still for easy (36) : the best one can do is to try to set some (37) to the idea and then work in (38) the middle. To think of happiness as acquisitive and (39) will do to set the (40) extremes. To think of it as the idea one senses in, say, a (41) man of India will do to set the spiritual extreme. That holy man’s idea of happiness is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he (42) nothing. He sits immobile, (43) in contemplation, free even of his own body. Or nearly free of it. If devout admirers bring him food he eats it; if not, he starves indifferently. Why be concerned (44) . Contemplation is his joy and he achieves it through a fantastically demanding discipline, (45) .
Is he a happy man Perhaps his happiness is only another sort of illusion. But who can take it from him And who will dare say (46)

【参考答案】

materialistic