2016专八阅读理解模拟试题六.doc

2016专八阅读理解模拟试题六 　Violence Can Do Nothing to Diminish Race Prejudice 　　In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violencehas so come to be taken for granted as a means of solvingdifferences, that it is not even questioned. There are countrieswhere the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there arecountries where the black man protests by setting fire to citiesand by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides,who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor ofviolence ?as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fillsyou with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actualprogress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basicallyunchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation ofviolence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves aproblem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed, the suffering mean nothing.No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruinsand wonder what hit us. 　　The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and herder to geta hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because theyadvocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes intoviolent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums andghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we wouldhave gone a long way to arriving at a solution. Our strength is sapped by having to mop up themess that violence leaves in its wake. In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill theideals of a stable social programme. The benefits that can be derived from constructive so