(B) Vacations were once the prerogative of the 16 few, even as late as the 19thcentury. Now they are

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(B) Vacations were once the prerogative of the 16 few, even as late as the 19thcentury. Now they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate 17 as,for example, the bulk of Bangladesh’s population, for whom life, 18 sleep andbrief periods of rest, is uninterrupted toil.Vacations are more necessary now than before because today the average life isless well-rounded and has become increasingly compartmentalized. I suppose the idea ofvacations, as we conceive it, must be 19 to primitive peoples. Rest of some kindhas of course always been a part of the 20 of human life, but earlier ages did notfind it necessary to organize it in the way that modern man has done. Holidays and feastdays were 21 .With modern man’s increasing tensions, with the 22 quality of so much ofhis work, this break in the year’s routine became steadily more necessary. Vacationsbecame 23 for the purpose of renewal and repair. And so it 24 that in theUnite States, the most self-indulgent of nations, the tensest and most compartmentalized,vacations have come to take a 25 place in domestic conversation.
16.
(A) gluttonous
(B) untouchable
(C) disadvantaged
(D) privileged

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答案：D
難度：適中0.678571
統計：A(4),B(1),C(2),D(19),E(0)

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