[单项选择]Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we "fit" in society. In our everyday lives, we mentally (1) place people in terms (2) their statuses. For example, we must (3) whether the person in the library is a reader or a librarian, whether the telephone caller is a friend or a salesman, whether the unfamiliar person on our (4) is a thief or a meter (5) , and so on. The statuses we (6) often vary with the people we encounter, and change (7) life. Most of us can, at very high speed, assume the statuses that (8) situations require. Much of social (9) consists of identifying and selecting among (10) statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in (11) to us. This means that we (12) our actions to those of other people based on a (13) mental process of (14) and interpretation. Alt A. aim to B. attempt to C. ascribe to D. ascertain to