Racial Prejudice
* ~3 M( [# _2 z' wIn 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.# Z9 m0 X0 X3 x& z4 u) K; }" G/ r
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 j2 S7 D* |: A# F& x! `' gEXERCISE: Y: `% O% }( C% C% K" y/ ^
1. A) where B) that C) which D) who0 y. c) d4 v6 ^; f/ L
2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting$ X* ^3 g* Q( h4 s2 b
3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason/ d7 o2 B& C5 G* r$ u7 p
4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of0 j. j% p7 e* h6 k8 T+ t0 L
5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up; m8 c$ E& t! b+ Z: N/ a
6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end
- y! }; { P$ d: Y9 I0 s4 n7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records1 C+ V6 i1 o; d) s5 J
8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves/ U' A% s3 I' \( m6 ^
9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning! j V D: P! k
10. A) what B) that C) / D) which
2 r x: X1 {- [$ d- h" K11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies8 \' n% s2 D. S8 w9 \" d: c, M
12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule
- @# ]8 E; Q0 T, ~# r; _% I2 R13. A) like B) so C) that D) as
- L7 r. L" q* h14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use" [0 n7 _$ D8 S( [; R
15. A) by B) at C) for D) with2 u' J5 _' w* e% r" b5 Z2 q% P
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