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2016年职称英语考试综合类B级完形填空预测题(2)

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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.

  EXERCISE:

  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) for 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 B0 put to good use C0 put good to use D) good put to use

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

  KEY:A C A D B A C D B A C A D B C

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