Passage Fourteen
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man 1 his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by setting fire 2 cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on 3 , who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue 4 violence-as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other.
What is really 5 , what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no 6 progress at all. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence never solves a problem but makes it more 7 . The sheer horror, the bloodshed, and the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally 8 the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding 9 harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning 10 the slums and ghettos, at improving livingstandards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arrving at a solution.
1.［A］ imposes ［B］ impresses ［C］ implies ［D］ impulses 2.［A］ in ［B］ to ［C］ at ［D］ on 3.［A］ either side［B］ neither side［C］ all sides ［D］ both sides 4.［A］ against ［B］ in favour of［C］ out ［D］ in view of 5.［A］ to frighten［B］ frightened ［C］ frightening［D］ frighten 6.［A］ factual ［B］ genuine ［C］ true ［D］ actual 7.［A］ tedious ［B］ concerned ［C］ violent ［D］ acute 8.［A］ contend ［B］ think of ［C］ consolidate［D］ contemplate 9.［A］ them ［B］ this ［C］ it ［D］ the solutions 10.［A］ out ［B］ up ［C］ away ［D］ down
