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【安徽省黄山市普通高中2019届高三11月“八校联考”】完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now?___21___on their way to impressive careers. By society’s?___22___, they seem to have it made. On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a?___23___drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and___24___?out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine?___25___?a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars. The thing is, a number of them have?___26___?that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some___27___of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they?___28___?. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and?___29___. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the?___30___?to which they have so quickly become?___31___ People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and?___32___in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they???___33___or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: it’s___34___?.They have loans, bills, a mortgage（抵押贷款）to?___35___, retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something???___36___??in their lives, but it’s???___37___??to step off the track. In a society that tends to???___38___everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our___39___in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs???___40___in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactl