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  3. Where would modern society be without advertising? Individual advertisers might think they are just trying to sell a 【B1】 ______

Where would modern society be without advertising? Individual advertisers might think they are just trying to sell a 【B1】 ______

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问题     Where would modern society be without advertising? Individual advertisers might think they are just trying to sell a 【B1】 ________  product but advertising as a whole sells us an entire lifestyle. If it weren’t for advertising the 【B2】 ________  of society would be quite different. The economy, for instance, would be 【B3】 ________  into a crisis without the advertisers. All the publicity that 【B4】 ________  our desire for limitless consumption would be gone.
    As John Berger observed in his book " Ways of Seeing" , all advertising conveys the same simple message; my life will be richer, more【B5】 ________ once I make the next crucial purchase. Adverts persuade us with their images of others who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result,【B6】 ________ The purpose is to make us【B7】 ________  dissatisfied with our life—not with the life of society, just with our individual life. We are supposed to imagine ourselves utterly transformed after purchasing an object of envy.
    The【B8】 ________ of this social envy is a necessary condition if advertising is to have any 9 on us whatsoever. Only if we have got into the habit of comparing ourselves with others and finding ourselves lacking, will we【B9】 ________  the power of advertising.
    While 【B11】 ________  the flames of our envy, advertising keeps us 【B12】 ________  with ourselves, our houses, our cars, our holidays and the endless line of new electronic gadgets that suddenly seem【B13】 ________  Tensions in society and problems in the rest of the world, if attended to at all, quickly fade into the background. They are certainly nothing to get particularly worked up about.
    Furthermore,【B14】 ________ the holy rituals of shopping (people get dressed up now to go shopping in the way that they only used to get dressed up when they went to church) , advertising is one of the ways in which we are quietly【B15】 ________ that our society is the best of all possible worlds, or at least so good that it is not worth【B16】 ________ for any fundamental changes. Advertisers【B17】 ________  tell us to get out and do some shopping, and the idea that the shelves of the shops are full of the latest products is indeed one of the most effective ways in which contemporary society gets its 【B18】 ________.  
    People like John Berger are not entirely【B19】 ________ about the impact that advertising and shopping have on the value of political freedom. Freedom is supposed to be the highest value in our societies, but in this age, freedom is all too readily【B20】 ________ with the freedom to choose between Pepsi and Coke, McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken, Toyota and Ford. And people lose interest in various freedoms and participating in the process of making social progress.
【B10】
选项 A、fall prey to
B、take control of
C、split up with
D、strike down
答案A
解析 词义和搭配辨析题。选项的意思分别为[A]“成为……的捕获物／猎物”； [B]“控制”；[C]“与……分开”；[D]“击倒”。空格所在的这一句运用到了倒装句型， “only if…”引导的这个从句提出了强有力的一个条件，也就是“只有当我们陷入了攀比并发现自己缺少一些东西的习惯时”，主句要表达的意思是“我们才会成为广告威力的猎物”，也就是当我们养成攀比的习惯时，我们才会成为被广告牵着走的猎物，因此答案选 [A]，fall prey to这个短语意为“成为……的捕获物／猎物”。
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