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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.. `2 Q6 b9 {4 u$ ^8 k: T
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.
! s" R P. x( r4 X, X6 `EXERCISE:
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3. A) reasonable B) reasonably C) reasonless D) reason
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6. A) at all B) after all C) at last D) in the end
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8. A) keeps B) deals C) answers D) solves# l: S I3 g/ t; Q
9. A) meant B) mean C) is meaning D) are meaning$ W. X) o# e& T# g3 c! ~
10. A) what B) that C) / D) which
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12. A) kind B) way C) right D) rule: {* ^' N& Q* r, P
13. A) like B) so C) that D) as8 B) B* B$ h( \$ M! L J$ D
14. A) put to use good B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use
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