Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we "fit" in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place people in terms of their statuses. For example, we must judge whether the person in the library is a reader or a __47__, whether the telephone caller is a friend or a salesman, whether the unfamiliar person on our __48__ is a thief or a meter reader, and so on.The statuses we assume often vary with the people we __49__, and change throughout life. Most of us can, at very high speed, assume the statuses that __50__ situations require. Much of social interaction consists of __51__ and selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in relation to us. This means that we __52__ our actions to those of other people based on a __53__ mental process of appraisal and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more difficult than others, most of us perform it rather __54__.A status has been compared to __55__ clothes. Within certain limits, the buyer can choose style and fabric. But an American is not __56__ to choose the costume of a Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince. We must choose from among the clothing presented by our society.A) fitI ) ready-madeB) inappropriatelyJ ) identifyingC) encounterK) raisingD) destinyL) librarianE) effortlesslyM) spokesmanF) boundN) variousG) propertyO) constantH) free