2019年职称英语考试试题《综合A》完形填空练习题及答案(3)

 　　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 (粗暴的) force, there are countries where the black man protests by. __________(2) fire to cities and by looting and pillaging ( 抢劫 ). Important people on both sides, who would appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in __________(3) of violence as if it were a legitimate (合法的) solution,__________ (4) any other. What is really frightening, what really __________(5) you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch (关键时刻) , we have made no actual__________ (6) at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded__________(7) of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that __________(8) never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the blood and the suffering__________ (9) nothing. No solution ever comes to __________(10) the morning after when we dismally (阴郁地) contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.

　　The truly reasonable men who__________ (11) where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted__________ (12) their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into __________(13) acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at __________ (14) up the slums and ghettos (贫民窟) , improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not have gone a long way to __________(15) at a solution.

　　1. A. when

　　B. why

　　C. where

　　D. what

　　2. A. catching

　　B. setting

　　C. fighting

　　D. returning

　　3. A. memory

　　B. spite

　　C. favor

　　D. need

　　4. A. through

　　B. as

　　C. to

　　D. like

　　5. A. puts

　　B. forces

　　C. sets

　　D. fills

　　6. A. decision

　　B. point

　　C. sense

　　D. progress

　　7. A. system

　　B. range

　　C. history

　　D. business

　　8. A. argument

　　B. talk

　　C. violence

　　D. research

　　9. A. mean

　　B. have

　　C. want

　　D. deal

　　10. A. end

　　B. light

　　C. mind

　　D. life

　　11. A. consider

　　B. know

　　C. suggest

　　D. demand

　　12. A. for

　　B. with

　　C. by

　　D. of

　　13. A. lawful

　　B. violent

　　C. symbolic

　　D. final

　　14. A. cleaning

　　B. looking

　　C. taking

　　D. getting

　　15. A. arriving

　　B. meeting

　　C. laughing

　　D. starting