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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 (1)______ 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(2)______ around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is(3)______ detailed behavior more astonishing than(4)______ any person can ever evolve in individual actions.(5)______ that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact (6)______ first-rate importance is the (7)______ role that custom plays in experience and in belief and the very great varieties it may(8)______.
    No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it (9)______ by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his(10)______ probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have(11)______ to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in(12)______ the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is(13)______ the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those (14)______ of his own baby talk that are(15)______ into the language of his family.(16)______ one seriously studies social orders that have had the opportunity to develop independently, the figure becomes no more than an(17)______ and matter-of-fact observation. The(18)______ history of the individual is first and(19)______ an adjustment to the patterns and standards traditionally(20)______ in his community.
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选项 A、words
B、lessons
C、lectures
D、instructions
答案A
解析 语义线索题。根据该空格前的vocabulary及其后的baby talk可知，只有words“话语，词”合适，故A正确。lessons表示“课程，教训”；lectures表示“演讲，讲座”；instructions表示“教育，指导”。
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