He is a bespectacled man in his thirties, hale but somewhat bookish. He stands, tuxedoed, in the wings of a theater, looking out at the stage, listening intently to end of a performance.
In the shadows behind him an old stagehand leans against a flat, expressionlessly smoking a cigarette, one hand on a thick rope that hangs from the ceiling.
The voices of the performing actors echo in from the of
1. The basis on which posterity will rank our civilization is the quality of our ideas. Our position among civilizations is determined by the _________.
① location of our civilization ② value of our thought
③ influence we have ④ rigidity of our thought
⑤ quantity of our thought
2. As you drive a car on a straight road where the sun is beating down, you may seem to see a shim