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Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice .for each blank on Answer Sheet Two.
4 C- }, h) u7 e' ~$ W+ A6 N5 p4 e The process by means of which human beings can arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process. (31) ___ we turn, we see the symbolic process (32) __ work. For example, stripes on the sleeve can be made to stand for military rank; crossed sticks can stand for a (33) __ of religious beliefs. There are (34) __ things that have not a symbolic value.: T& Q- O0 m% }' k
Almost all fashionable clothes are (35)_ symbolic. And we select our furniture to (36) ____ as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses on the (37) ___ of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address". We trade in perfectly good cars for (38) __ models not always to get better transportation, (39) __ to give evidence to the community that we can (40) _____ it.
8 V& w: G$ Q/ v" z% b8 d I once had an eight-year-old car in good running condition. A repairman, who knew the condition of the car, kept (41) ____ me to trade it (42) __ a new model. "But why?" I asked, "The old car's in (43) __ still." The repairman answered scornfully, "Yeah, but all you've got is transportation."
0 _7 D/ q0 C6 w: U! J+ q Such complicated and apparently (44) __ behavior leads philosophers to (45) __ over "Why can't human beings live simply and naturally?" (46) ____ the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative simplicity of such lives as dogs and cats lead.* Y* V! v* N& }
Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no (47) ___ for wanting to (48) __ to a cat existence. A better (49) ___ is to understand the symbolic process (50)___ instead of being its victims we become, to some degree at least, its masters.
$ R8 G* v, f; P! c8 Y 31. A. Whichever
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C. Everywhere
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32. A. in
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C. by ' q8 p+ o, ]' p$ u# _ W: h8 M* m- N i
D. on- \7 H8 q3 N Z; c+ H7 K
33. A. serial ) P) A, K- F4 M5 f- m" U' [
B. cluster3 K0 R& Q2 b3 w
C. suite. ) J$ |- E$ p+ Z' D P: v$ U% W
D. set
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C. enough $ z" t) z4 Y: j6 z8 c" m, Q7 t& M
D. little$ p2 ^* @+ Q2 ~5 o/ o P4 T# g
35. A. highly
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36. A. work
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C. serve
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37. A. chance
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D. basis$ ~% G, t+ n# G# X+ }
38. A. later - W. L) L9 l" ~$ V6 S7 \, F) q
B. former
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D. earlier# D7 \+ ]/ n O5 B3 V; O
39. A. yet
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C. and 4 P* ~- l- C- t3 s% k }: m6 A& t0 W
D. so2 }$ k0 u c. S3 F
40. A. afford % _+ P$ m. `6 g0 P( r1 g
B. offer: P/ O! l* B+ b; O, v7 G5 W2 u
C. supply + h0 ] `( N: w- T% x# E2 H
D. grant
+ V' b( O' Q1 f y8 t& B- X 41. A. advocating 8 m3 `+ H9 z7 u. T3 a0 F
B. alerting
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D. pressing
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B. in- P+ |2 c1 j9 S) @7 f4 J8 _1 J, n
C. out
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B. shape- F. [, r+ ]( Y' Z% F# f8 ?
C. demand
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44. A. unnecessary 6 t1 |9 W# L- z3 ]' w
B. useless3 z6 q* z, ~# \% G* `3 K7 H. m
C. random ' R- \: u& B0 g+ I) N
D. impolite+ X1 [3 q- A T1 I- ~) w
45. A. concern 8 Q+ S* h+ m% \
B. worry
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D. determine
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C. Always
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47. A. doubt / h& x2 a0 |6 \' n9 b5 e6 r
B. meaning3 a: d2 f/ I# B9 g
C. reason
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5 e9 L7 L2 ~+ x! I& X) @6 ` 48. A. return ' Q8 N/ l# W5 j) d
B. devote
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D. proceed
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B. solution
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D. resolution4 z% v" W+ l! U! J4 V
50. A. while
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C. since that 3 @0 S' a6 g# I0 `# ~; P9 M" {
D. so that |
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