The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely, humor is the_____1____ grace of us, for without it we should die ____2______ vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things ____3_____than the matter of sleep.If, for example, my____4_____is to write an essay, and I have before me ink and pens and several___5____of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I_____6____an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is. The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and ___7___found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. Mcdeere, at least not on paper. He had the_____8____,the ambition, the good looks. And he was ___9______; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and ___10__ was mandatory. The firm also _11____heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract.He had a degree in accounting and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which was of course a _____12_____ with a tax firm. Imitations also came into the cheese____13____. There are American ____14____ of most of the celebrated European cheeses, mass-produced and ____15____by far than the imports.They would ___16_____European food-lovers to gag and ___17_____—but generally, the imitation are all that’s ___18____in the supermarkets. People buy them and eat them. I suspected at the time and now ___19____ that the riots were perhaps the most significant, massive ____20____ taken by Northern Negroes. It was a watershed in the ghetto's ___21______ Before the riots, the reach or the Negro movement in America seemed _____22_____ the province of small civil rights____23______.Now Watts,and places like Watts, were redefining the ____24_____ of black men in their city's life. A.realize B. history C.role D.action E. leadership F.within G. saving H.feel I. of J. intention K.sheets L. betterM.guffaw N. business O. cause P. available Q. cheaper R. duplications S.again T. requirement U.that V.hungry W.brains X. frowned