在职申硕英语考试

【单选题】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 (61) things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
Almost all fashionable clothes are (62) symbolic, so is fooD、We (63) our furniture to serve (64) visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses (65) the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address. " We trade perfectly good cars in for (66) models not always to get better transportation, but to give (67) to the community that we can (68) it.
Such complicated and apparently (69) behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can’t human beings (70) simply and naturally. " Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative (71) of such lives as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no (72) for wanting to (73) to a cat-and-dog existence.A、better solution is to understand the symbolic process (74) instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its (75) .
A．teachers
B．students
C．masters
D．servants

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 本题中，instead of表示替代，所以前后应呈现对立性；而slaves的对立面是masters(主人)，因此C项为正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>