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Down-to-earth means someone or something that is honest, practical and easy to deal with. It is 41 to find someone who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to and 42 other people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the 43 of someone who acts important and proud．

Down-to-earth persons 44 be important members of society. 45 they don’t let their importance “go to their heads”. They do not 46 themselves to be better persons than others of less importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and pride, often without cause, is 47 to have “his nose in the air”. There is 48 way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.

Americans 49 another expression that means almost the same as down-to-earth. The expression is “both-feet-on-the-ground”. Someone with both-feet-on-the-ground is a person with a good 50 of reality. He 51 what is called “common sense”. He may have 52 , But he does not allow them to 53 his knowledge of what is real. The opposite kind of 54 is one who has hid “head-in-the-clouds”. A man with his head-in-the-clouds is a dreamer whose 55 is not in the real world．

56 , such a dreamer can be brought back to reality. 57 words from a teacher can usually get a day-dreaming student to put both feet back on the ground．Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very 58 to have both feet on the ground． 59 we have both our feet firmly on the ground, we are down-to-earth, and we act honestly and openly 60 others. Our lives are like the ground below us, said and strong.

41．A．pleasant B．sad C．common D．surprising

42．A．meets B．welcomes C．receives D．accepts

43．A．case B．kind C．opposite D．example

44．A．must B．may C．should D．will

45．A．But B．So C．For D．And

46．A．wish B．expect C．desire D．consider

47．A．said B．told C．asked D．made

48．A．some B．a C．no D．every

49．A．discover B．find C．make D．use

50．A．understanding B．wish C．reason D．expectation

51．A．demands B．lacks C．has D．likes

52．A．fortunes B．dreams C．achievements D．disadvantages