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.

     This strategy also has ancient antecedents. Ever since civilization began, certain ____1___ have tried to run away from it in hopes of finding a simpler, more ____2___, and more peaceful life. Unlike the dropouts, they are not ____3___. They are willing to support themselves and to ____4___ something to the general community, but they simply don’t like the environment of civilization; that is, the city, with all its ____5___ and tension. 
     I had the lonely child’s habit of ____6___ stories and holding conversations with ____7___ persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and ___8___. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing ____9___ facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my ____10___ in everyday life. 
     Only two people shared her “special” seat: a fine old man in a velvet coat, his hands ____11____ over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting ___12____, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered apron. They did not speak. This was ___13____, for Miss Brill always looked forward ____14____ the conversation. She had become really quite ____15____, she thought, at listening as though she didn’t listen, at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her. 
     Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must instead find the ____16____ value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have identified three distinct value ___17____, so called because each discipline produces a different kind of ____18___ value. Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company ___19____ the other two, only that it picks a dimension of value on which to ____20___ its market reputation over the long term. 
     The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic “point”, consists in its power to ____21____ activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with plenty of ____22____: it is not likely to become comatose. Every snobbery demands of its devotees ____23____ efforts, a succession of sacrifices. The society-snob must be perpetually lion-hunting; the modernity-snob can never rest ___24___ trying to be up-to-date. Swiss doctors and the Best that has been thought or said must be the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of ___25___ and culture.

A.making up B.unique C.upright D.customer E.ugliness
F.disciplines G. imaginary H.parasites I.to J.stake
K.fleas L.clasped M.disease N.disappointing O.failure
P.individuals Q.expert R.undervalued S.contribute T.abandons
U.unceasing V.pastoral W.from X.stimulate Y.unpleasant