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Racial Prejudice
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( C) e2 h5 K% @* s 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.7 I- E; {, I3 D. w' S) }6 V
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 t) D- Z# E V- `. Q
EXERCISE:8 J$ V+ z: `2 z
1. A) where B) that C) which D) who
# ?$ b3 N8 _0 H6 n2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting; R! f/ c+ p7 H5 W2 i
3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason
: q7 k j4 @$ D- O' b! L4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of
$ V# E7 J" {: F7 Y' h8 q5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up4 _' A) a8 x, r% _
6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end
8 r: H3 h' Y2 }0 n2 A6 i) D7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records
( m" j" t6 n& a; `+ [3 P8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves2 a4 z1 V5 r' g$ Q* |- F( `
9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning 2 L4 p) k0 A8 J/ F1 Y3 P2 O
10. A) what B) that C) / D) which5 M7 M1 v+ w, a, v2 w
11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies) z. h' r. h2 Q% d4 r" h
12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule7 p5 w1 N2 f( M E4 G- q5 ?
13. A) like B) so C) that D) as7 M5 N: k. j0 U" \, Q' Z
14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use - m% n- ]) N) c! [. u% S* N% ~' a
15. A) by B) at C) for D) with
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