第十三篇：

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 ___A___1____ the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by ___C__2_____ fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be ___3__A_ men, get up and calmly argue __D__4___ violence as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you _____5__B__ despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress __A___6___. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the _____7__C__ history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never ___D__8____ a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering _____9___B__ nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder ___A__10____ hit us.

The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions ___C____11____ are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own ___A____12______ because they advocate such apparently outrageous things _D___13_____ law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were __B____14_____, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment __C__15____ all, we would not 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 se          D) good put to use

15. A) by           B) at             C) for          D) with