According to certain beer commercials, the contemporary version of success 【B1】______ in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you 【B2】______ success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic. 【B3】______ the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering 【B4】______ business schools are burgeoning, and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time 【B5】______ faculty members, because teaching isn't 【B6】______ "successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus 【B7】______ there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school 【B8】______ , for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket. Many, by external 【B9】______ , 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 【B10】______ past the limits, who 【B11】______ gloriously high and falls unashamedly 【B12】______ That sort of ambition doesn't have much place in a world 【B13】______ success is proved by worldly reward 【B14】______ by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics, 【B15】______ 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 【B16】______ the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are 【B17】______ themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire 【B18】______ of human possibilities. Does it ever 【B19】______ to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for 【B20】______ they can't think of something noble enough to be worth failing at?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查逻辑关系。空格处连接词引导的从句说明前一句所谈情况的原因，因此，应选because。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。这是因为对个体开业者来说，法学学位仍被看作是一张生活的保险单。”

【正确答案】 C

【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”，两项都不符合句意；criteria和standard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’。”这里所说的标准是既定的公认标准，因此，应用standard。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。restrict意为“限制，控制”，restrict…to意为“限制在”；restrain意为“限制，抑制”，restrain…from意为“克制……使不”；bound意为“限制”，不与to连用；enclose意为“围在里面，使与世隔绝”，不与to连用。句意是：“……他们把自己限制在令人窒息的一刈之地。”A符合句意和句子结构，是正确答案。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：本题考查近义词辨析。range意为“范围”，尤指各种种类，可供选择的范围；extent意为“广度，长度”，指某事物扩展所及的距离，尤指线的距离；scope指活动、影响等的“范围”，还指掌握的深度或涉及的广度；domain指活动、思想等的“领域，范围”。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。come意为“出现，产生”，可以说：An idea comes to my mind．(我想到一个主意。)但不能说：It comes to me that…；approach意为“靠近，接近”，不符合句意；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……”