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  3. Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies suggest that men feel the need to appear competent in a

Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies suggest that men feel the need to appear competent in a

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问题    Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies suggest that men feel the need to appear competent in all【C1】______ , while women worry only about the skills in which they’ve invested【C2】______ Ask a man and a woman to go diving for the first time, and the woman is likely to jump in, while the man is likely to say he’s not feeling too well.
   Ironically, it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure. Praise won for【C3】______ a skill suddenly puts one in the position of having everything to lose. Rather than putting their reputation on the line again, many successful people develop a handicap—drinking,【C4】______ , depression—that allows them to keep their status no matter what the future brings. An advertising executive【C5】______ for depression shortly after winning an award put it this way: "Without my depression, I’d be a failure now; with it, I’m a success ’on hold. "’
   In fact, the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those【C6】______ with success. Such people are so afraid of being【C7】______ a failure at anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order to explain away failure.
   Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performance anxiety now and then, in the end, researchers say, it will lead to【C8】______ . In the long run, excuse makers fail to live up to their true【C9】______ and lose the status they care so much about. And despite their protests to the【C10】______ , they have only themselves to blame.
   A) contrary F) labeled K) potential
   B) fatigue G) legacies D realms
   C) heavily H) mastering M) reciprocal
   D) heaving I) momentum N) ruin
   E) hospitalized j) obsessed O) viciously
【C1】
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答案L
解析 空格位于介词短语in all______中，因此空格处需要填入名词复数形式。[语义判断]空格前一句提到，男性比女性更容易找借口，可见这里是对男性和女性进行比较，而空格所在句的后半句指出，女性只担心那些自己投入______的技能。由空格后的while可推知，男性情况与女性情况相对，此处是指男性希望在所有领域都显得有能力，由此确定名词L)realms“领域，范围”为本题答案。备选的另一复数名词G)legacies表示“遗产；遗留的问题”，与此处语义不符，故排除。
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