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Exaggeration is an intoxication of words. Language temporarily loses its self-con- trol. In events of world-class exaggeration, the tongue likes to disconnect itself from the past and race off obviously astride any passing enthusiasm. Most excesses do not display the exaggerator’s art in it’s best light: they are merely blurbs and boasts. (46)In more complex usage, exaggeration does dynamic and suggestive work: it can be used to frighten or threaten, to reassure (oneself or others), to glorify, and, above all, to relieve the tedium of life to entertain.
Exaggeration is one of the methods of all myth--from Olympian deities to giants like Paul Bunyan and John Henry, to mythic historical figures--Mao, say, or George Patton. (47)A child exaggerates his parents’ powers to the point of myth; heroes and caricatures, of course, is based on the artists method of exaggerating one feature in proportion to the others.
(48)The great difficult

[单项选择]It may seem an exaggeration to say that ambition is the linchpin of society, holding many of its different elements together, but it is not an exaggeration by much. Remove ambition and the essential elements of society seem to fly apart. Ambition, as opposed to mere fantasizing about desires, implies work and discipline to achieve goals, personal and social, of a kind society cannot survive without. Ambition is intimately connected with family, for men and women not only work partly for their families;husbands and wives are often ambitious for each other, but harbor some of their most eager ambitions for their children. Yet to have a family nowadays-with birth control readily available, and inflation a good economic argument against having children-is nearly an expression of ambition in itself. Ambition and futurity-a sense of building for tomorrow-are inescapable. Working, saving, planning-these, the daily aspects of ambition-have always been the distinguishing marks of a rising middl
A. its members hold great expectations of each other.
B. it’’s the right place for free revelation of ambitions.
C. it’’s what people are driving and competing for.
D. it serves as a shelter for concealing ambitions.