71-80.
The following are excerpts from Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and
the Art of Battling Giants, in which he challenges the way we think about obstacles and disadvantages. By referring and reconstructing the Bible story of the shepherd boy and the giant, Gladwell offers a new interpretation of what it means to cope with obvious setbacks in demonstrating how much of what is successful in the world comes out of what looks like suffering and adversity.
  Passage I:  
This is what Goliath was expecting—a warrior like himself to come forward for hand-to-hand ___(71)___. It never occurred to him that the battle would be fought on anything other than those terms, and he prepared  ___(72)___. To protect himself against blows to the body, he wore an ___(73)___ tunic made up of hundreds of overlapping bronze fishlike scales. It covered his arms and reached to his knees and probably weighed more than a hundred pounds. He had bronze shin guards protecting his legs, with ___(74)___ bronze plates covering his feet. He wore a heavy metal ___(75)___.
【題組】71.
(A) combat
(B) comrade
(C) command
(D) compensation