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According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?

A. Those who don't emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness.
B. Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.
C. Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N. B. D's.
D. Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.

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Diane says the restaurant was

A. full.
B. expensive.
C. quiet.

According to the passage, iPod has many features EXCEPT that ______.

A. it was not the first digital-music player
B. it was the first to transfer and organize music
C. it is a typical example of Apple to combine its clever technology with simplicity
D. it is the most advanced digital-music player

Freedom, of course, is not an unproblematic concept. For example, if we do not have the courage to choose to live in a particular way, even though we could live that way if we so choose, can it be said that we do have the freedom to live that way, i.e. the correspondent capacity? It is not any purpose here to brush under the carpet difficult questions of this-and-other-type. In so far as there are genuine ambiguities in the concept of freedom, that should be reflected in corresponding ambiguities in the characterization of capacity. This relates to a methodological point, which I have tried to defend elsewhere, that if an underlying idea has an essential ambiguity, a precise formulation of that idea must try to capture that ambiguity rather than hide or eliminate it.
Comparisons of freedom raise interesting issues of evaluation. The claim is sometimes made that freedom must be valued independently of the values and preferences of the person whose freedom is being assessed, since it concerns the "range" of choice a person has--not how she values the elements in that range or what she chooses from it. I do not believe for an instant that this claim is sustainable (despite some superficial plausibility), but had it been correct, it would have been a rather momentous conclusion, driving a wedge between the evaluation of achievements and that of freedom. It would, in particular, be then possible to assess the freedom of a person independently of--or prior to--the assessment of the alternatives between which the person can choose.
It is said in the passage that there are ambiguities in the characterization of capacity because ______.

A. freedom and capacity of human beings are closely related to each other
B. capacity is an underlying idea of the problematic concept of freedom
C. human capacity depends on personal characteristics and social arrangements
D. we could never actually get the correspondent capacity in reality

Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?

A. How to assess freedom is rather controversial though interesting, as it is implied in the passage
B. The "claim" mentioned in the passage will be unfavorable to the evaluation of achievements and that of freedom.
C. The author does not believe that a perfect way of assessing the concept of freedom exists.
D. Capacity is supposed to be of ambiguity since the concept of freedom is ambiguous.

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