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
精选英语美文阅读:被忽略的爱 Helpless love
最美的英文情诗:请允许我成为你的夏季
精选英语散文欣赏:一棵小苹果树
如果生命可以重来(双语)
双语美文:What are you still waiting for?
浪漫英文情书精选:The Best Surprise最好的惊喜
态度决定一切 Attitude Is Everything
精选英语美文阅读:哪有一株忘忧草? (双语)
浪漫英文情书精选:Don't Give Up不要放弃
精选英语美文阅读:饶孟侃《呼唤》
浪漫英文情书精选:My Love Will Reach Any Distance爱无边
浪漫英文情书精选:Could This Be Real?这是真的吗?
美文:爱的奇迹
爱情英语十句
精选英语美文阅读:A Friend's Prayer 朋友的祈祷
双语阅读:回家的感觉真好
精选英语散文欣赏:平等的爱
英语美文欣赏:A beautiful song
生命可以是一座玫瑰花园
双语美文:I Wish I Could believe
精选英语美文阅读:假如生活欺骗了你
精选英语美文阅读:爱的奇迹 Keep on Singing
浪漫英文情书精选:Is It Love?这是爱么?
双语散文: Optimism and Pessimistic
精选英语美文阅读:一封未发出的英文情书《但是你没有》
浪漫英文情书精选:My Everything我的一切
精美散文:让我们撩起生命的波纹
精美散文:爱你所做 做你所爱
献给女性:如果生命可以重来
26个英文字母蕴含的人生哲理
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |