Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one
word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways:
according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by
using the given letters of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer
sheet.
The process by (66) of which human beings
arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the
symbolic process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic
process (67) work. There are few things men do or want to
do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
Almost all fashionable clothes are (68) (high)
symbolic, so (69) food. We s (70) our
furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social p
(71) We often choose our houses on the (72)
of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address. " We trade perfectly
good cars in for l (73) models not always to get better
transportation, but to give evi (74) to the community that
we can (75) it. Such complicated and
apparently (76) (use) 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
(77) of such live as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that
symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to
(78) to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to
understand the symbolic process so (79) instead of being its
slaves we become, to some degree at least, its (80) .