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. . b2 D! R& P S: E% z [
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.
3 a6 Y# e6 q" y2 G3 VEXERCISE: D% Z0 @$ ^. O. x& M
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2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting
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4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of
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& E4 C0 ^/ |7 P* J3 J 8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves . a v, H* k$ B3 K6 O, p% j
9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning
3 D% ^3 f; \/ U0 ? 10. A) what B) that C) / D) which
$ A4 N |% C$ M v5 J+ j 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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