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Racial Prejudice
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.
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.
1. A. where B. that C. which D. who
2. A. giving B. catching C. setting D. letting
3. A. reasonable B. reasonably C. reasonless D. reason
4. A. for the sake of B. for fear of C. in case of D. in favor of
5. A. of B. with C. by D. up
6. A. at all B. after all C. at last D. in the end
7. A. record B. recording C. recorded D. records
8. A. keeps B. deals C. answers D. solves
9. A. meant B. mean C. is meaning D. are meaning
10. A. what B. that C. / D. which
11. A. lay B. lays C. lie D. lies
12. A. kind B. way C. right D. rule
13. A. like B. so C. that D. as
14. A. put to use good B. put to good use C. put good to use D. good put to use
15. A. by B. at C. for D. with
