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

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问题     The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things many be called the symbolic process.
    Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work.There are【C1】______things men do or want to do,possess or want to possess,that have not a symbolic value.
    Almost all fashionable clothes are【C2】______symbolic,so is food.We【C3】______ our furni-ture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position.We often choose our houses【C4】______the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly good cars in for later models not always to get better transportation, but to give【C5】______to the community that we can【C6】______it.
    Such complicated and apparently unnecessary behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can’t human beings【C7】______simply and naturally." Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative simplicity of such lives as dogs and cats.Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no【C8】______for wanting to【C9】______to a cat-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【C10】______.
【C7】
选项 A、live
B、work
C、stay
D、behave
答案A
解析 从下文的“the complexity of human life”可推断此处讲述“人类为什么不能生活得简单些，自然些”，因此A项“live活着，生活，居住”符合题意。
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