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READING #4
In Ancient Greece lived a young
man called Narcissus, who was greatly xx1xx,
for he was very handsome. Narcissus was very proud of his perfect face
and graceful body, and never lost the chance to xx2xx
his reflection in any body of water he happened to pass. He would lie for
hours admiring his gleaming dark eyes, slender nose, slim hips and the
mop of curly xx3xx that crowned the perfect
oval of his face. You would think a sculptor had come down xx4xx
heaven to carve such a faultless body as a living image of mankind's love
of beauty. One day, Narcissus was walking close to a precipice where the
clear waters of a cold mountain pool mirrored his beautiful face. "You
are handsome, Narcissus!" he told xx5xx as
he bent down to admire his reflection. "There's nobody xx6xx
handsome in the whole world! I'd love to kiss you." Narcissus was suddenly
seized by the desire to kiss his own reflection and he bent down closer
to the water. But he lost his balance and toppled into the pool. Narcissus
could not xx7xx and so he drowned. But when
the gods discovered that the xx8xx beautiful
being on earth had died, they decided that such beauty could not be xx9xx.
The gods turned Narcissus into a scented flower which, to this day, blossoms
in the mountains in spring, and which is xx10xx
called Narcissus.
Adapted from The Myth of Narcissus
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