单项选择题 Here, so profligate has its use become the air conditioner is almost______the automobile of the national tendency to overindulge in every technical possibility, to sue every convenience to such excess that country looks downright coddled.

单项选择题 The buffalo which the lion fells provokes his aggression as little as the appetizing turkey which I have just seen hanging in the larder provokes______.

单项选择题 ______is practiced to some extent by the adherents of every religion. It often requires abstinence from food, drink, or sexual activity, as in fasting or celibacy and it may also require physical pain or discomfort, such as endurance of extreme heat or cold or self-punishment.