Racial Prejudice ' H8 @( K$ o+ K: @* Y6 tIn 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. ( ^. u& N# g. o i9 l7 |/ _8 ? IThe 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.' r/ M% }0 Y" p d' c
EXERCISE: 1 l: o5 [" J) H# G* u6 a5 D5 S1. A) where B) that C) which D) who# P8 U) _+ A# ?6 `2 P8 i' W4 F; b
2. A) giving B) catching C) setting D) letting 9 o) c4 e2 r' ^& c3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason & F- |; Y1 G8 q7 z7 J4. A) for the sake of B) for fear of C) in case of D) in favor of / p; Q( H N @. w( J5. A) for B) with C) by D ) up; o) U2 P% R$ S: w2 g. i- c
6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end7 I" T8 K- s5 K! Q/ m7 F y" z- f
7. A) record B) recording C) recorded D) records + Y1 G5 H* |: r& ]' g8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves " G0 H+ M, @! h7 j u9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning9 t( X- C- a: T* w n# i s" K
10. A) what B) that C) / D) which8 c K) t/ D# a4 }
11. A) lay B) lays C) lie D) lies ! t" r6 M6 ^9 R. r+ x12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule 0 K" A- m* ]& t. r: q) _13. A) like B) so C) that D) as5 [- ?# x# s' j' m. w
14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use; q1 H" Z5 c/ Y
15. A) by B) at C) for D) with & O4 P; f5 }% T1 T! aKEY:A C A D B A C D B A C A D B C