When I was graduating from college，my generation also found the world in a ( 32 ).The economic machinery had broken ( 33 ) almost everywhere：In this country nearly a quarter of the ( 34 ) was out of work. A major war seemed all ( 35 ) likely.As a college newspaper editor at that time，I protested against this ( 36 ) as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain ( 37 ) so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so.When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the ( 38 )— and it satisfied us.A ( 39 ) of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your j am desire.But，of the ( 40 ) tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam，you need half a cupful to get the ( 41 ) of what you're eating.Literacy may not be an inalienable human right，but it is ( 42 ) that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even ( 43 ).We are not only not attaining it ( 44 ) a nation，statistically speaking，but we are falling further and further ( 45 ) of attaining it.And，while 1 would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause，I believe it ( 46 ) and is an influence.To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s ( 47 ) in human nature，for, even after the ( 48 ) eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them，no midnight confidence，no casting ( 49 ) the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.They sink，( 50 )once，into stupid，heavy slumber，leaving you to your own ( 51 ) devices.And they all snore abominably!Downtown，she ( 52 ) her car in a garage.Everything was getting ready for this moment.She did not carry the flowers in her ( 53 ) but she carried them in her heart.Now she was going to find out ( 54 ) it was death or life.Either ( 55 ) could tolerate.It did not ( 56 ) to her that the newsreel might not be there.

A.why B.unattainable C.down D.most E.faith F.while

G.at H.occur I.ideaJ.just K.whether L.teaspoonful M.mess

N.contributes O.she P.too Q.parked R.average S.car

T.as U.short V.up W.one X.mental Y.population

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