in october 1838, i happened to read for amusement malthus on population, and being well prepared to _____ the struggle for existence which _____ goes on, from long continued _______ of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that, under these circumstances, favorable variations would tend to be _______, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
[参考译文]1838年10月，我随便读了《马尔萨散人口论》，很欣赏书的到处都有的生存竞争，经过对动物和植物生存习性的长期观察，我忽然想到这种环境下，有利于生存的变化被保留了，而不利于生存变化被消除了。
参考答案：appreciate, everywhere ,observation,preserved.
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fallois _____ that proust had tried to begin a novel in 1908, _____ it for what was to be a long demonstration of saint-beure’s blindness to the real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise to personal _____ and fictional developments, and allowed these to take over in a _____ developing novel.
[参考译文]fallois提出proust 1908年就开始写小说了，因为saint-beure对于写作的真实性质的忽视，他把小说放置了。后来开始流行个人回忆录和科幻小说，这些东西和小说一起稳步地发展。
参考答案：proposed,abandoned,memories,steadily