Each word can be used only once.Somebody ought to defend the workaholic. These people are unjustly accused, abused, and 16) _______ – often termed sick or abnormal.However, some social researchers 17) _______ from the resources of most significant social achievements that workaholics are, in fact, the real achievers. One-third of American business and 18) _______ is carried on the shoulders of workaholics. There is a wide-spread feeling against excellence – even an 19) _______ of commonness. It is as though we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they 20) _______ doing something.Now, it is time for us to 21) _______ the respect for excellence. We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is 22) _______ by living a so-called well-balanced life. Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud and most 23) _______ in various fields had single-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. Some people say that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can 24) _______ in the balanced life also. Consider how many normal people find, at middle-age, that they have never done anything well – they are going to 25) _______ for being less than what they could have become. Isn’t that a pity, too?

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once.

Somebody ought to defend the workaholic. These people are unjustly accused, abused, and 16) _______ – often termed sick or abnormal.

However, some social researchers 17) _______ from the resources of most significant social achievements that workaholics are, in fact, the real achievers. One-third of American business and 18) _______ is carried on the shoulders of workaholics. There is a wide-spread feeling against excellence – even an 19) _______ of commonness. It is as though we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they 20) _______ doing something.

Now, it is time for us to 21) _______ the respect for excellence. We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is 22) _______ by living a so-called well-balanced life. Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud and most 23) _______ in various fields had single-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. Some people say that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can 24) _______ in the balanced life also. Consider how many normal people find, at middle-age, that they have never done anything well – they are going to 25) _______ for being less than what they could have become. Isn’t that a pity, too?

A. enjoy B. react C. administrate D. teased E. exist
F. commerce G. revive H. received I. deduce J. regret
K. financial L. retailer M. achieved N. predecessors O. admiration