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Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
The loudest outcry about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country by far in the world. According to most calculations, 67 most of that period the United States had a standard of living well 68 Europe's and many times above the world 69 . Yet protests about grinding poverty, hunger, and dreadful need 70 more from the United States than from countries with one-fortieth of their living 71 . An annual per capita income of about 500 dollars is 72 of much of Africa and Asia and not a little of South America. It would seem strange to these people that American radicals demand a 73 from an American commitment to the far corners of the globe so that the money thus saved can be spent 74 the standard of living of 75 Americans. What this last point suggests is not so much that human 76 are never to be satisfied though this is doubtlessly true, and the American suburbanite(郊區居民) 77 of his second car and his color TV suffers just as 78 as an African farmer in need of a second cow and a screen door. Rather, it suggests the 79 of contemporary breach of social 80 —the emancipation of the individual self. People have learned to consider any 81 to personal fulfillment as a(n) 82 insult. They have greatly expanded the circle of self-awareness. They no longer accept sharp limitations on individual desires in the 83 of the group. The amount of potential human discontent has always been 84 —misery, failure, misfitting, bitterness, hatred, envy 85 telling. It has usually failed of 86 , and in the past it was accepted passively as being beyond help.
