Complete each blank with ONE most suitable word in blank numbered (61)
Open cloze 1
Everyone who uses the wealth of language wants to use it in some way (0) that is characteristically his own. He wants it, (61) __________, a sense, as his private property. This desire is the most genuine tribute we (62) __________ to our heritage because it is unspoken and often unacknowledged, but it is steady.
Henry Seidel Canby said that style is like happiness: "Everyone recognizes it; everyone describes it, (63) __________ no two people agree as (64) __________ its exact nature." There are many views and many mysteries (65) __________ which the student can delve, but for working purposes, style may be (66) __________ upon as our personal appearance in print, our self-image given in speech. When we become personal about the language, we become conscious (67) __________ style, for it is through style (68) __________ we make the language our own. A style, representing the sum total of choices made in daily speech and writing, expresses our individual connection with that vast and confusing body of knowledge known as language. It is (69) __________ of our surest and most creative conceits that the way we write and talk must have features that mark us (70) __________ from the mass.
