简答题：At a party last week, I met a man who until recently was a

At a party last week, I met a man who until recently was a government minister. We ___26___about this and that, and he said how much he was enjoying his ___27___sinecures non-executive directorships, speaking ___28___ and so on. He had both more money and more___29___ time than he used to have; in all, life was good. I asked him if he was missing the power. He looked at me as if I were a fool. Government ministers don't have any
power, he said. As a writer, I am used to people telling me that their jobs are meaningless. In fact, this is the most popular problem that readers___30___. Lawyers, bankers, fund managers and all sorts of people with grand jobs write to me with the same___31___ : The money may be good but where is the meaning? How can I make a difference? I always tell them to stop looking for meaning at once. If they go out looking, they are most___32___ to find anything. It is the same thing with happiness: The more you search, the less you find. No one ___33___this excellent advice. The search for meaning at work not only goes on rising but it also seems to be getting more urgent all the time.
When government ministers join some professionals in complaining that their work doesn't___34___ a row of beans, we are really in trouble. This crisis of meaninglessness is a relatively new thing. But now, as a joint result of prosperity and our general___35___ self-reflection, it has become the normal thing.
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