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  3. At the age of twelve, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has 【C1】_____to reach its full size and strength, and its owner

At the age of twelve, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has 【C1】_____to reach its full size and strength, and its owner

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问题     At the age of twelve, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has 【C1】_____to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the 【C2】_____ of death is least.
    Earlier, we were infants and young children, and 【C3】_____ more vulnerable; later, we shall undergo a(n) 【C4】_____ loss of our vigour and resistance which, though imperceptible at first, will finally become so 【C5】_____ that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us. This decline in vigour with the passing of time is called ageing.
    Normal people 【C6】_____ to forget this process unless and until they are 【C7】_____ of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, 【C8】_____ people have for years assumed that the 【C9】_____ of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something 【C10】_____. Most animals we commonly observe in fact age as we do, 【C11】_____ given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch, or the sun, will 【C12】_____ energy someday. But these are not 【C13】_____ to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be 【C14】_____. An old watch, by 【C15】_____, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself—it does not consist of 【C16】_____ parts, only of metal, which wears away by 【C17】_____.
    We could, at 【C18】_____, repair ourselves—well enough, at least, to 【C19】_____ all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. Between twelve and eighty we gradually lose this power, an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us 【C20】_____ .
【C16】
选项 A、alive
B、living
C、lively
D、live
答案B
解析 考查易混形容词辨析。alive“活着的”，侧重说明生与死之间的界限，既可指人，也可指物，且只可用作表语、后置定语或宾补，不能作前置定语；living“活的”，强调说明“尚在人间，健在，有生命力的”，可用来指人或物，可作前置定语或表语；lively“活泼的，活跃，充满生气的”，可作定语、表语或宾补，既可指人，又可指物；live“活的”，通常指物，不指人，常用作前置定语放名词的前面。还指“实况转播的”。由于本题的意思是指相对于人来说的有生命的部件，故B符合文意，为正确答案。其他三项均可排除。
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