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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题37 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  Have you ever looked at someone elses life with 1 , just enough envy that you wish for a moment or two (or longer) that you 2 be them? Michelle Obama with her combination of grace and passion; George Clooney with his stylish attractiveness and ironic humor; Usain Bolt or Lionel Messi or some other icon of 3 .  To be sure, there are 4 here. If you 5 someone elses life, who would raise your children or love your 6 or take care of your parents in their old age? In fact, if you were someone else, your own children would not have come into 7 in the first place. Thats not a happy thought. To 8 this, perhaps the best way to cast this is in terms of a trade: If you had their life then they would have yours, and live it 9 as you would have. Your responsibilities would be 10 , so there would be nothing to feel guilty about.  One immediate reservation about wanting someone elses experience is that my desire to be someone else is 11 in values and desires that I have, and so I have to be 12 in order to want to be him. 13 , its not clear that that presents any real hurdle to such a desire. I could say that it is precisely by my own lights that the experience of being them would be 14 , and that there would be at least enough overlap with them that they are achieving nay values and desires but have a better experience than I do. So I can still 15 to be them.  I think that, on reflection, most of us would not want to trade with another person, no matter how successful or enticing their lives seem—or even are in reality. To see why, though, well need to 16 our angle of vision. We will have to look at our own experiences 17 at theirs, or perhaps look at our exper