According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain mesa of communication?
Doctors are often caught in a _____ because they have to decide whether they should tell their patients the truth or not.
Alter they told each other the truth, both the woman and her son felt ______.
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They are not honest. They don’t ______ to know the truth.
“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner _______ me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” Pietro Aretino quotes.
I hope you won’t mind _____ you the truth.
He is much a coward to speak the truth.
Passage 2
Is there something as truth? For good many centuries “the search for truth” has been 1 _ the noblest activity of the human mind, but the seekers after truth have come to such 2 conclusions that it often seems that very little progress has been made. 3 , there are many people who feel that we are actually going backward 4 our knowledge. They 5 , often contemptuously, that we have more “knowledge” than our ancestors, but they think we are farther from the truth than ever, or even that we have 6 the truth that we once possessed.
If people look for anything long enough without finding it, the question naturally arises 7 the thing is really there to find. You have seen a picture of an animal with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tall and maybe an eagle’s wings for good 8 . There is plenty of evidence that each part of this animal 9 -but there is no 10 evidence that the parts ever occur in this combination. It is at least 11 that the seekers after “truth” have made a similar mistake and invented a(n) 12 combination.
It is 13 to consider that the noun truth comes from the adjective true, and that the Latin world for truth, verities, also comes form an adjective, versus. In both languages the notion of true -accurate, 14 to facts-seems to have developed before the notion of truth. We cannot definitely prove this, 15 even older words meaning “truth” may have been forgotten, but it seems 16 . If you want to find out whether a man has told the truth, you 17 his words with facts. If they 18 , you decide that his statement was true. You may then say either that his words were true or that he spoke the truth-but you cannot simply 19 words to find out whether there is something called truth in them. Your second statement is merely a grammatical 20 of the first.
1. A. regarded B. considered C. pondered D. referred
2. A. illegal B. identical C. different D. profound
3. A. However B. Nevertheless C. In fact D. In contrast
4. A. to abandon B. to derive C. to enrich D. to accumulate
5. A. confess B. realize C. admit D. reveal
6. A. found B. missed C. lost D. enriched
7. A. while B. that C. when D. whether
8. A. measure B. luck C. reason D. sense
9. A. endures B. exists C. prevails D. emerges
10. A. appropriate B. unique C. reliable D. dependent
11. A. informative B. thoughtful C. considerable D. conceivable
12. A. unbelievable B. imaginary C. impressive D. idealized
13. A. enlightening B. delighting C. refreshing D. distressing
14. A. conforming B. complying C. matching D. resembling
15. A. although B. since C. if D. therefore
16. A. reasonable B. inevitable C. incredible D. distinguish
17. A. Separate B. discern C. compare D. distinguish
18. A. suit B. fit C. vary D. identify
19. A. survey B. audit C. examine D. investigate
20. A. distinction B. deformation C. specification D. variation
I have told you the truth. ______ I keep repeating it?