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In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries ___1___ the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by __2__ fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be __3__ men, get up and calmly argue __4__ violence- --as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you __5__ despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress __6__. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the __7__ history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never __8__ a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering __9__ nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder __10_ hit us.4 }/ v( j N; m+ X3 G
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions __11__ are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own __12__ because they advocate such apparently outrageous things __13__ law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were __14__, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment __15__ all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution.
5 W+ _2 g1 R' v$ I2 M5 E/ oEXERCISE:" C1 i, ?2 z( O2 K6 ~
1. A) where B) that C) which D) who [2 D, p6 x; x' F/ c
2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting
/ r+ J' C; H, N- r3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason% X: Q, l1 p i. E& V
4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of
+ |' r8 }/ j' V) U# V0 j& A+ c1 a% m5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up
+ M' _0 k5 D& ?7 R {6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end6 T! Q4 T3 Z \. W: |( G
7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records
8 o: ?% G. K; ]5 M- ~6 i8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves4 O1 d9 F. e* P% _3 s
9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning
7 V5 d/ {# j. G; `10. A) what B) that C) / D) which5 `! G; @) i8 ?" |8 g8 d% }
11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies
8 Q5 s' q! X) M2 Y1 v' b+ x! h12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule
0 i/ n( Y) t) s; u& W' }; y13. A) like B) so C) that D) as
; _ W: W3 o; C" q& f$ z8 R U14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use
. S5 ^0 C: N0 X8 n3 X6 O15. A) by B) at C) for D) with; Y3 E7 ~, {- q( o$ l, E
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