The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a _______ of rock stars have helped our society define its beliefs and _______ . Bob Dylan touched a _______ of disaffection. He spoke of _______ rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He spoke of change and of the _______ of an older generation. “Something's happening here,” he sang. “You don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” 

     On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It washer Sunday _______. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes _______. It made a great _______. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present-a surprise-something _______ might very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a _______ way. 

     The satisfaction of _______ time and of affording some outlet, however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose work is dull _______ on the average than a man who has no work _______ all. But when work is interesting, it is _______ of giving satisfaction of a far higher order than mere relief _______ tedium. The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a hierarchy. 

     Problems large and small confront the elderly. They are easy targets for crime in the _______ and in their homes. Because of loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties they are prime _______ of dishonest door-to-door salesmen and fraudulent advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless "Medicare insurance supplements", and quack health remedies. Persons crippled by arthritis or strokes are yelled at by _______ bus drivers for their slowness in climbing on and _______ buses. Traffic lights turn _______ before they can get across the street. 

     Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must _______ find the unique value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have _______ three distinct value disciplines, so called because _______ discipline produces a different kind of customer value . Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company _______ the other two, only that it picks a dimension of value on which to stake its market reputation over the long _______.

A. abandons         B. at               C. attitudes           D. bewilderment            E. capable
F. civil                  G. dashing      H. difference         I. each                             J. from
K. happier             L. identified  M. impatient        N. instead                       O. killing
P. nerve                Q. not             R. number            S. off                                T. red
U. streets              V. term          W．that                X. treat                            Y. victims