完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Lately, I’ve been talking about success with design students both at the school where I teach and at other programs that I visit. When I ask, “What is success?” The first response is, invariably(总是), “Getting a(n) 1 and making money.” It 2 some searching to arrive at a richer answer. 3 , getting paid is a baseline for success in any field. Putting this criterion on the table is a(n) 4 step.
When I ask design students to talk about what makes design different from the fine 5 , they gravitate towards(被吸引到) the role of the client. Designers serve clients, or so the logic goes, 6 artists serve themselves.
Although it is true that designers generally rely on clients, pleasing them is not the 7 purpose of our work. What designers share with our clients is the 8 . Our clients wouldn’t need us at all if we weren’t helping them 9 that public. The public may never know who designed the coffee cup they’re holding, the magazine they’re reading or the sign that’s 10 them where to go. But they’re seeing it, and some of them might, at some level, have their 11 enlivened(使有生气), simplified or otherwise improved by it. One way to think about success is asking whether your work gets 12 or used, and if so, whether using it improves people’s lives.
