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"All men are created equal" is one idea that nearly every American would agree upon.  1  they
sometimes betray the idea in their daily lives, they have a deep faith  2  in some fundamental way no one
is born superior to anyone else.
In the early years of American history, because titles of nobility (贵族) were forbidden, no  3  class
system developed in the United States. Firmly believing that being born into a lower class would not  4  
them from success and they would have a better chance in America, thousands of immigrants  5  to leave
the European societies, where their  6  in life was determined  7  by the social class into which they were
born. It was because the dreams of many of there immigrants were  8  in their new country, though there
might be  9  in some situations, that Americans came to believe in equality of opportunity.
Americans do not mean that everyone should be  10  equal when they say they believe in equality of
opportunity.  11  , they do mean that each person should have an equal chance for success. Abraham
Lincoln once said, "We wish to  12  the humblest (最微贱的) man an equal chance to get rich with
everybody else. When one starts poor, free society is  13  that he knows he can  14  his condition."
However, competition is the price to be  15  for his equality of opportunity. Americans match their
energy and intelligence against that of others in a competitive contest for success, because they believe
competition  16  the best in any person. Indeed, the pressure of competition causes an American to be
  17  , but it also places a constant emotional stress on him. In fact, in a society that gives so much  18  
to those "winners",  19  does not compete successfully for whatever reason never 20  into it as well as
those who do.

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