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  3. Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stilln

Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stilln

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问题     Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things  21  he stands in more fear than of the  22  of noise. Even his conversation is  23  a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of  24  of the emptiest-headed chatterbox. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means  25  the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is man and not a wax-work figure. The object of conversation is not,  26  the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. Most buzzing,  27  is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the  28  . He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors. Those who despise the weather as a conversational opening seem to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are  29  if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen a new play. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length, they justly  30  themselves on their success as conversationalists. [br]
选项 A、in great measure
B、in brief
C、all in all
D、at least
答案 D
解析 空格所在句子大意为：甚至一个人的谈话至少也是在竭力摆脱可怕的沉默。在 给出的选项中：in greatmeasure“在很大程度上”；in brief“简言之”；all in all“总而言之”； at least“至少”。所以，正确答案是D。
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