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  1. Though prices soared inevitably, never had so much money been squandered, and while ________(基本需求/日常必需品) were often lacking, never had so much been spent on superfluties.

  2. ________(就...而论/尽...说/只就...说 [这里翻作就算...]) this is possible, he is at ease under a reign of terror.

  3. Cottard watched them gloatingly. “Good work, my dears!” he’d exclaim. “Go to it!” Even his voice had changed, grown louder; as Tarrou wrote, he was “________(变得快乐/变漂亮/兴旺)” in the congenial atmosphere of mass excitement, fantastically large tips clinking on café tables, love-affairs shaping under his eyes.

  4. His “I’ve been ________(饱受折磨) myself” had more pity than triumph in it.

  5. They’re ________(因对某人或某事所存希望不会实现而极度不快) instead of ________(坚守/保持在固定或正确的位置上). And they don’t even realize their privileges.

  6. One can have ________(惺惺相惜/同病相怜) toward people who are haunted by the idea that when they least expect it plague may lay its cold hand on their shoulders.