Directions： For each blank in the following passage， choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
The world has never been more closely and intricately connected. Our behavior __31__ the environment we all share， and we are tied into a global economy and global communication system：
__32__ choosing to buy one garment rather than another we help determine whether someone on the other side of the world retains or __33__ their job； we can __34__ with others anywhere via satellites，the Internet and the mobile phone. This interdependency， __35__"connexity"， is the defining characteristic of the world today. __36__， despite connexity， human beings have also never been more separate. Belief in individual rights and freedoms is at the heart of the West s world view. People nowadays insist their freedom to choose __37__ to live， who to love， what to consume and what to believe. In economics， the power of the consumer and the shareholder is huge. In politics， the power of nations remainsa __38__ concern.
In his book， Geoff Mulgan argues that our freedom and our connectedness are set on a collision course and argues that the __39__ way out of our current impasse(僵局)is to go beyond our sense of ourselves as __40__ units， and recognize the webs of mutual responsibility in which we live.