According to certain beer commercials, the contemporary version of success【C1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you【C2】______success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic. 【C3】______the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering【C4】______business schools are burgeoning...and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time【C5】______faculty members, because teaching isn't【C6】______"successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus【C7】______there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school【C8】______, for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket. Many, by external【C9】______, will be "successes". Yet there is a deadening and dangerous flaw in their philosophy: It has little room, little sympathy and less respect for the noble failure, for the person who【C10】______past the limits, who【C11】______gloriously high and falls unashamedly【C12】______. That sort of ambition doesn't have much place in a world【C13】______success is proved by worldly reward【C14】______by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics,【C15】______people who haven't quite caught on—and there is great social pressure not to be one of them. The irony is that today's success-chasers seem obsessed with the idea of not settling. Yet in doggedly【C16】______the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are【C17】______themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire【C18】______of human possibilities. Does it ever【C19】______to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for【C20】______they can't think of something noble enough to be worth failing at?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：本题考查逻辑关系。空格处句意是：尽管人们一致认为律师人数过多，供过于求，而且，诉讼之盛行有如流行病，令人窒息，但年轻人仍不断涌向法学院，其人数之多创最高记录。这是因为对个体从业者来说，法学学位仍被看作是一张生活的保险单。因此，空格处连接词引导的从句说明前一句所谈情况的原因，C选项为正确答案。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。level意为“水平，水准”；rule意为“规则”，都不符合句意；standard和criteria均有“标准”之意，但criteria指用来判断、批评事物的“标准”，这个标准可以是个人所依据的标准；standard是事先制定出来的用来衡量事物的质量、品质等公认的“客观标准”。句意是用外在的标准来判断，许多人将成为“成功人士”。可知，A选项为正确答案。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。restrain意为“限制，抑制”，restrain与from搭配，意为“克制……使不”； restrict意为“限制，控制”，restrict to意为“限制在”；enclose意为“围在里面，使与世隔绝”，为及物动词，不与to连用；bound与to连用时，表示“必然；与……密切相关的”。空格处句意是：他们把自己限制在令人窒息的一刈之地。因此，只有B选项符合句意和句子结构，是正确答案。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。domain指活动、思想等的“领域，范围”；extent意为“广度，长度；程度”，指某事物扩展所及的距离，尤指线的距离；range意为“范围”，尤指各种种类，可供选择的范围；scope指活动、影响等的“范围”，还指掌握的深度或涉及的广度。本句指人类有着各种可能性，因而用range表示范围。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。approach意为“靠近，接近”，不符合句意；come意为“出现，产生”，可以说：An idea comes to my mind；但不能说：It comes to me that…；happen和occur均有“发生”的意思，但occur还表示“(某想法)出现在脑中，被想到”的意思，这正符合句意：“他们有没有想到……”。