[填空题] Silence is unnatural to man. He be gins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the (B1) he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the (B2) of noise. Even his conversation is in great (B3) a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal and a number of (B4) occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a (B5) , a worthless person, and is full of (B6) of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (唠叨多言的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, (B7) he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work (B8) . The object of conversation is not, for the (B9) part, to communicate ideas: it is to keep up the buzzing sound. Most buzzing, (B10) , is agreeable to the ear. and some of it is agreeable even to the (B11) He would be a foolish man, (B12) , wh
A. A．whereas
B．so
C．since
D．though

[填空题] Silence is unnatural to man. He be gins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the (B1) he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the (B2) of noise. Even his conversation is in great (B3) a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal and a number of (B4) occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a (B5) , a worthless person, and is full of (B6) of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (唠叨多言的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, (B7) he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work (B8) . The object of conversation is not, for the (B9) part, to communicate ideas: it is to keep up the buzzing sound. Most buzzing, (B10) , is agreeable to the ear. and some of it is agreeable even to the (B11) He would be a foolish man, (B12) , wh
A. A．length
B．interval
C．period
D．meantime