Racial Prejudice
% N6 L4 I3 x# P9 D4 F! A( KIn 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.
) K7 r. b" P9 c$ o) XThe 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.7 x# g3 o3 l/ e1 c
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1. A) where B) that C) which D) who
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6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end9 V$ D( u0 \6 L3 u( x; k; t1 u
7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records
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9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning
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11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies
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13. A) like B) so C) that D) as
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" D( R! z* h5 e2 s" I- X15. A) by B) at C) for D) with
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