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Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are (41) things men do or want to do, possess or want to posse

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问题     Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are  (41)   things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
    Almost all fashionable clothes are  (42)   symbolic, so is food. We  (43)   our furniture to serve  (44)   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  (45)   models not always to get better transportation, but to give  (46)   to the community that we can afford it.
    Such complicated and apparently  (47)   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  (48)   of such live as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to  (49)   to a cat -and 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  (50)  .
(45)
选项 A、earlier
B、later
C、former
D、latter
答案B
解析 “我们用完好无损的车(perfectly good cars)”去换新款式的车，而不是旧款式的车，否则就与to get better transportation矛盾了。因此models的修饰语应该是。later(表示“较近的，以后的”)。
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