Directions:There are 10 questions in this part of the
test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or
phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make
certain things stand for other things many be called the symbolic
process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at
work. There are 1 things men do or want
to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
Almost all fashionable clothes are 2 symbolic, so is food. We 3 our
furniture to serve 4 visible symbols of
our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses on the basis
of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly
good cars in for 5 models not always to
get better transportation, but to give 6 to the community that we can afford it. Such complicated
and apparently 7 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 8 of such live as dogs and
cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no
reason for wanting to 9 to a cat -and
to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic
process so that instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least,
its 10 .