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55. By saying that an American is not free to choose the costume of a Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince , the writer means _________.

A) different people have different styles of clothes

B) ready-made clothes may need alterations

C) statuses come ready made just like clothes

D) our choice of statuses is limited

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:

Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we fit in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place people in terms of their statuses. For example, we must judge whether the person in the library is a reader or a librarian, whether the telephone caller is a friend or a salesman, whether the unfamiliar person on our property is a thief or a meter reader, and so on.

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加了引號，意義有所改變

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The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change throughout life. Most of us can, at very high speed, assume the statuses that various situations require. Much of social interaction consists of identifying and selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in relation to us. This means that we fit our actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more difficult than others, most of us perform it rather effortlessly.