共15空,每空1分.每题的备选项中,只有1个最符合题意 1、 Racial PrejudiceIn some countrieswhere racial prejudice is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a meansof solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries___1___ the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countrieswhere the black man protests by __2__ fire to cities and by looting andpillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appearto be __3__ men, get up and calmly argue __4__ violence- --as if it were alegitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what reallyfills 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 ofwar-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the __7__history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taughtus absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never __8__ aproblem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and thesuffering __9__ nothing. No solution ever /www.yingyukaoshi.com/ comes to lightthe morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder__10_ hit us.The trulyreasonable men who know where the solutions __11__ are finding it harder andharder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted bytheir own __12__ because they advocate such apparently outrageous things __13__law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were __14__, ifour efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improvingliving-standards and providing education and employment __15__ all, we wouldhave gone a long way to arriving at a solution.EXERCISE:
