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Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importan

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问题     Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely【C1】______ of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other【C2】______ around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is【C3】______ detailed behavior more astonishing than【C4】______ any person can ever evolve in individual actions.【C5】______ that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact【C6】______ first-rate importance is the【C7】______ role that custom plays in experience and in belief and the very great varieties it may【C8】______.
    No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it【C9】______ by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his【C10】______ probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have【C11】______ to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in【C12】______ the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is【C13】______ the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those【C14】______ of his own baby talk that are【C15】______ into the language of his family.【C16】______ one seriously studies social orders that have had the opportunity to develop independently, the figure becomes no more than an【C17】______ and matter-of-fact observation. The【C18】______ history of the individual is first and【C19】______ an adjustment to the patterns and standards traditionally【C20】______ in his community. [br] 【C18】
选项 A、recreation
B、education
C、emotion
D、life
答案 D
解析 语义线索题。上文提到，习俗对个人行为塑造的影响大于个人对传统风俗的影响，因此此处应指一个人的“生活”史，故D项life正确。其他选项过于片面，且与本文的主要话题不符。
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