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  3. The process by【C1】______of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic

The process by【C1】______of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic

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问题     The process by【C1】______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 few things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
    Almost all fashionable clothes are【C2】______(high)symbolic, so is food. We【C3】s______our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses on the【C4】______of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address. " We trade perfectly good cars in for【C5】______(late)models not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can【C6】______it.
    Such complicated and apparently【C7】______(use)behavior leads philosophers to ask o- ver 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【C8】sim______of such lives as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason 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】______.
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答案useless
解析 根据常识那些时尚的、有品味的、价格高的、看起来好的并不一定是必须购买的，故填useless。
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