填空题. A. unnecessary B. many C. purchase D. solution E. ponder F. highly G. trade H. few I. result J. basis K. instead of L. worry M. evidence N. select O. rarely The process by means of which human beings can arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. For example, stripes on the sleeve can be made to stand for military rank; crossed sticks can stand for a set of religious beliefs. There are 1 things that have not a symbolic value. Almost all fashionable clothes are 2 symbolic. And we 3 our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses on the 4 of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address". We 5 perfectly good cars for later 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 8 over "Why can't human beings live simply and naturally?" Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative simplicity of such lives as dogs and cats lead. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to return to a cat existence. A better 9 is to understand the symbolic process so that 10 being its victims we become, to some degree at least, its masters.