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  3. The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic pro

The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic pro

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问题     The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process.
    Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are 46 things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
    Almost all fashionable clothes are 47 symbolic, so is food. We 48 our furniture to serve 49 visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses on the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly good cars in for 50 models not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can 51 it.
    Such complicated and apparently 52 behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can’t human beings live simply and naturally." Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative 53 of such live as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to 54 to a cat and to a eat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic process so that instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its 55 .
选项 A、teachers
B、students
C、masters
D、servants
答案C
解析 由instead of可以看出该句是前后呈现对立的关系，而masters正是slaves的对立面，所以答案为C。
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