PASSAGE 15
6 ]- x. A/ f, h$ Q9 Q* f c4 h$ rRacial Prejudice) K, R, N# s4 _& y7 p
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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.
: f( H* |$ i# J- n2 J" \ 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.
6 ~' F& V- P, h3 ^- aEXERCISE:. ~0 m% R& ?$ f
1. A) where B) that C) which D) who. f& a5 T0 y9 X, n* s1 J
2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting
- M3 Z0 g: B7 i6 x9 a9 P3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason9 _4 V+ K! I$ z
4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of
1 @! X; I% B' D. G5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up
- E8 j: Q3 R8 L! d1 }6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end; L, P( @' u5 _6 I
7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records
% H$ \5 l& l4 o, Y! z, q3 k3 \8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves
" u% Y. K: K- @* x9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning $ O+ }! Z: t8 g6 W
10. A) what B) that C) / D) which! _4 ~ X9 l4 N% W6 V% W
11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies% X2 O% n& J5 m0 |* ?+ z c
12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule
$ I) d" t' ]6 S h( Z4 B F13. A) like B) so C) that D) as7 q! W* w& T, w) W
14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use
u. t9 U' d ~; w- i15. A) by B) at C) for D) with - ^- e3 L6 l) U7 t5 W8 M( P
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