So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my( 1 ) also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had ( 2 ) down almost everywhere: In this country ( 3 ) a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too ( 4 ). As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested ( 5 ) this just as vehemently as student ( 6 ) are protesting today.But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the ( 7 ), went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat ( 8 ) for a long time. The box ( 9 )the fur came out of was ( 10 ) the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, ( 11 ) looking, laid it inside. But when she put the ( 12 ) on she thought she heard something crying.The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on ( 13 ) those who remain and those who leave. Such as ( 14 ) is, the ghetto is regarded as ( 15 ) place to make a career for those who have a future. Without ( 16 ), the prime American values underscore the ( 17 ). Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the ( 18 ) like travelers.A.absentB.noC.lidD.stairsE.generationF.nearlyG.pastH.mostI.bothJ.thereK.withoutL.activistsM.againstN.itO.ghettoP.lieQ.exceptionR.onS.likelyT.brokenU.thatV.thanW.notionX.educationI know that American technical genius, and ( 19 ) of all the moon landing, seems to give the ( 20 ) to too summary a condemnation of the ( 21 )system, but there is more to education ( 22 ) the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the ( 23 ) as a force still miraculously fertile and moving—mostly ( 24 ) from American education at all levels.

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