第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
In the past few years, quite a number of men and women have chosen to do something less competitive. They are afraid that the stress and strains of work will rob them ____31____ joy and happiness and ____32____ them harm both physically and mentally.
In fact, however, stress isn’t the bad thing ____33____ it is often supposed to be. Above all, ____34____ it gets out of control, a certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and challenge, and to give purpose and significance to ____35____, otherwise meaningless, idle life. ____36___, people under stress tend to express their full range of potential and to actualize their own _____37____(person) worth—the very aim of a human life.
Stress is a natural part of everyday life and _____38 ___ is no way to avoid it. What we can do is ____39____(develop) our adaptive abilities to deal with it rather than to escape ____40___ it.