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  3. Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to

Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to

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问题     Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely【C1】______of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other 【C2】______around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is【C3】______detailed behavior more astonishing than【C4】______any person can ever evolve in individual actions. 【C5】______that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact【C6】______first-rate importance is the 【C7】______role that custom plays in experience and in belief and the very great varieties it may【C8】______.
    No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it【C9】______by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his【C10】______probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have【C11】______to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in【C12】______the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is【C13】______the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those【C14】______of his own baby talk that are【C15】______into the language of his family. 【C16】______one seriously studies social orders that have had the opportunity to develop independently, the figure becomes no more than an【C17】______and matter-of-fact observation. The【C18】______history of the individual is first and【C19】______an adjustment to the patterns and standards traditionally【C20】______in his community.
【C7】
选项 A、minor
B、trivial
C、predominant
D、inferior
答案C
解析 根据该空格前的first-rate importance可知，此处应指习俗发挥“主要的”作用，只有C项predominant“主要的，占主导地位的”合适，故选C。
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