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  3. Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a no

Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a no

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问题     Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things  21  he stands in more fear than of the  22  of noise. Even his conversation is  23  a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of  24  of the emptiest-headed chatterbox. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means  25  the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is man and not a wax-work figure. The object of conversation is not,  26  the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. Most buzzing,  27  is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the  28  . He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors. Those who despise the weather as a conversational opening seem to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are  29  if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen a new play. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length, they justly  30  themselves on their success as conversationalists.
选项 A、in great measure
B、in brief
C、all in all
D、at least
答案D
解析 空格所在句子大意为：甚至一个人的谈话至少也是在竭力摆脱可怕的沉默。在 给出的选项中：in greatmeasure“在很大程度上”；in brief“简言之”；all in all“总而言之”； at least“至少”。所以，正确答案是D。
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