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  3. According to certain beer commercials , the contemporary version of success【B1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs

According to certain beer commercials , the contemporary version of success【B1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs

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问题     According to certain beer commercials , the contemporary version of success【B1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you【B2】______success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic.
    【B3】______the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering【B4】______business schools are burgeoning,and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time【B5】______faculty members, because teaching isn’t【B6】______" successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus【B7】______there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school【B8】______, for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket.
    Many, by external【B9】______, will be "successes". Yet there is a deadening and dangerous flaw in their philosophy: It has little room, little sympathy and less respect for the noble failure, for the person who【B10】______past the limits, who【B11】______gloriously high and falls unashamedly 【B12】______
    That sort of ambition doesn’t have much place in a world【B13】______success is proved by worldly reward【B14】______by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics,【B15】______people who haven’t quite caught on—and there is great social pressure not to be one of them.
    The irony is that today’s success-chasers seem obsessed with the idea of not settling. Yet in doggedly【B16】______the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are【B17】______themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire【B18】______of human possibilities. Does it ever【B19】______to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for【B20】______they can’t think of something noble enough to be worth failing at?
【B3】
选项 A、With
B、Under
C、Below
D、Behind
答案B
解析 本题考查介词用法。under的一个引申义是“在……(原因、条件等)之下”，根据句意，应选B。underthe flag of…意为“在……的旗帜下”。
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