试题出自试卷《华东师范大学2012年考博英语真题》

Love and friendship have much（1）. If two persons are to be （ 2 ） , they must find contentment in each other's（ 3） , suffer pain in each other's failure, and（ 4） pleasure in each other's success. Each must find（ 5） the mood and temperament of the other something（ 6） and congenial. But any deep and permanent friendship    （ 7） a larger common area than romantic love. Notoriously, the prince may fall in love with the chorus girl when the two have almost（ 8） in common. But friendships are based（ 9） , on common interests in a project, an art, or a cause; one thinks of Marks and Engels, Cobden and Bright, Gilbert and Sullivan, the Mayo brothers, Weber and Fields.
Still, common interests by themselves will not（10）friendship and many co-workers have been（11）and enemies. （12） friendship must see（13）about values, about things, admired and liked and（14）. It is not（15）if, whenever we grow enthusiastic about dancing or music or flying or science, our companion can only say, “Sorry, but I（16）all that detestable.”  （ 17 ） of the blessings of friendship is that it supplies a sounding-board which,  （ 18） our own delights, makes them greater. And by a happy correlative law, sorrows when shared grow less. Friends （ 19 ） each other like the sides of an arch; they gain（ 20） , security, reassurance in failure, added happiness in success, and a large increment of courage merely from facing things side by side.