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  3. Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies sugg

Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies sugg

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问题    Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies suggest that men feel the need to appear competent in all【C1】______ , while women worry only about the skills in which they’ve invested【C2】______ Ask a man and a woman to go diving for the first time, and the woman is likely to jump in, while the man is likely to say he’s not feeling too well.
   Ironically, it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure. Praise won for【C3】______ a skill suddenly puts one in the position of having everything to lose. Rather than putting their reputation on the line again, many successful people develop a handicap—drinking,【C4】______ , depression—that allows them to keep their status no matter what the future brings. An advertising executive【C5】______ for depression shortly after winning an award put it this way: "Without my depression, I’d be a failure now; with it, I’m a success ’on hold. "’
   In fact, the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those【C6】______ with success. Such people are so afraid of being【C7】______ a failure at anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order to explain away failure.
   Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performance anxiety now and then, in the end, researchers say, it will lead to【C8】______ . In the long run, excuse makers fail to live up to their true【C9】______ and lose the status they care so much about. And despite their protests to the【C10】______ , they have only themselves to blame.
   A) contrary F) labeled K) potential
   B) fatigue G) legacies D realms
   C) heavily H) mastering M) reciprocal
   D) heaving I) momentum N) ruin
   E) hospitalized j) obsessed O) viciously [br] 【C9】
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答案 K
解析 空格前面是形容词性物主代词their和形容词true，可知此处应该填入名词或动名词，作介词to的宾语。[语义判断]本句意为；从长远来看，制造借口的人无法发挥他们真正的______。由此可以判断应该填入K)potential“潜力，可能性”。其余备选名词选项填入后，句意均不通顺，故排除。
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