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  3. Now Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to

Now Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great importance. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to

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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 worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most common place. As a matter of fact, it is the other way around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the pre- dominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief and the very great varieties it may manifest.
   No man ever looks at the world with pristine (未受外界影响的)eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes(固定的模式); his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the language of his family. When one seriously studies social orders that have had the opportunity to develop independently, the figure(这种比喻) becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an adjustment to the patterns and standards, traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.
The word "custom" in this passage most probably means
选项 A、the concept of the true and the false of a society
B、the independently developed social orders
C、the adjustment of the individual to the new social environment
D、the patterns and standards of behavior of a community
答案D
解析 依据文章第二段倒数第三句、倒数第二句：一个人自出生开始便受风俗的影响，他的行为要适应他的社会所形成的行为方式和标准。由此我们判断：Custom 即是社会中形成传统的行为方式和标准。
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