Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very carefulabout lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.Once caught, you can ever again be, in the eyes of (41) ______.the good and the pure, that you were before. Many a (42) ______.young person have injured himself permanently (43) ______.through a single clumsy and illfinished lie, theresult of carelessness born to incomplete training. (44) ______.Some authorities hold that the young ought to lie at all. (45) ______.That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain,and I believe I am right, that tile young ought tobe temperate to the use of this great art until practice and (46) ______.experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, andprecision which alone can make the accomplishment gracefuland profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention todetail--these are the requirements; these, in the time, (47) ______.will make the student perfect; at these, and upon these only, (48) ______.may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Thinkwhat tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience,went to the equipment of that peerless old master who wasable to impose upon the whole world the lofty andsounding maxim which "truth is mighty and will prevail" (49) ______.--that most majestic compound fracture of fact which anywoman born has yet achieved. Of the history of our race, andeach individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidencethat a truth is not hard to kill and what a lie told well is immortal. (50) ______.
For Questions 16 through 20, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Running a marathon is an ()task, taking months of both physical and mental preparation and training before actually running a grueling 26.2 miles.
A. arduous
B. ambiguous
C. involuntary
D. eloquent
E. overt
F. ambitious