SSC: Cloze Test Quiz: 02.12.2017
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Question 1
In our own research in France and Spain, we find little willingness to make costly __(1)___ for democracy, especially compared to the willingness to fight and die for jihad in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Our wide-ranging interviews and psychological experiments have uncovered not a ‘clash of civilizations’, as Poland’s interior minister declared in reaction to events in Barcelona, but civilisation’s__(2)__, as young people __(3)__ from traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. Individuals radicalize to find firm identity in a __(4)__ world. In this new reality, vertical lines of communication between generations are replaced by horizontal peer-to-peer attachments that can span the globe, albeit in vanishingly narrow channels of ideas and information. Our research has shown that, despite its __(5)__ against ‘globalists’, today’s alt-Right movement involves the same narrow-minded global weave of tweets, blogs and chat rooms linking physical groups across the world as the jihadi movement.
Question 2
In our own research in France and Spain, we find little willingness to make costly __(1)___ for democracy, especially compared to the willingness to fight and die for jihad in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Our wide-ranging interviews and psychological experiments have uncovered not a ‘clash of civilizations’, as Poland’s interior minister declared in reaction to events in Barcelona, but civilisation’s__(2)__, as young people __(3)__ from traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. Individuals radicalize to find firm identity in a __(4)__ world. In this new reality, vertical lines of communication between generations are replaced by horizontal peer-to-peer attachments that can span the globe, albeit in vanishingly narrow channels of ideas and information. Our research has shown that, despite its __(5)__ against ‘globalists’, today’s alt-Right movement involves the same narrow-minded global weave of tweets, blogs and chat rooms linking physical groups across the world as the jihadi movement.
Question 3
In our own research in France and Spain, we find little willingness to make costly __(1)___ for democracy, especially compared to the willingness to fight and die for jihad in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Our wide-ranging interviews and psychological experiments have uncovered not a ‘clash of civilizations’, as Poland’s interior minister declared in reaction to events in Barcelona, but civilisation’s__(2)__, as young people __(3)__ from traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. Individuals radicalize to find firm identity in a __(4)__ world. In this new reality, vertical lines of communication between generations are replaced by horizontal peer-to-peer attachments that can span the globe, albeit in vanishingly narrow channels of ideas and information. Our research has shown that, despite its __(5)__ against ‘globalists’, today’s alt-Right movement involves the same narrow-minded global weave of tweets, blogs and chat rooms linking physical groups across the world as the jihadi movement.
Question 4
In our own research in France and Spain, we find little willingness to make costly __(1)___ for democracy, especially compared to the willingness to fight and die for jihad in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Our wide-ranging interviews and psychological experiments have uncovered not a ‘clash of civilizations’, as Poland’s interior minister declared in reaction to events in Barcelona, but civilisation’s__(2)__, as young people __(3)__ from traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. Individuals radicalize to find firm identity in a __(4)__ world. In this new reality, vertical lines of communication between generations are replaced by horizontal peer-to-peer attachments that can span the globe, albeit in vanishingly narrow channels of ideas and information. Our research has shown that, despite its __(5)__ against ‘globalists’, today’s alt-Right movement involves the same narrow-minded global weave of tweets, blogs and chat rooms linking physical groups across the world as the jihadi movement.
Question 5
In our own research in France and Spain, we find little willingness to make costly __(1)___ for democracy, especially compared to the willingness to fight and die for jihad in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Our wide-ranging interviews and psychological experiments have uncovered not a ‘clash of civilizations’, as Poland’s interior minister declared in reaction to events in Barcelona, but civilisation’s__(2)__, as young people __(3)__ from traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. Individuals radicalize to find firm identity in a __(4)__ world. In this new reality, vertical lines of communication between generations are replaced by horizontal peer-to-peer attachments that can span the globe, albeit in vanishingly narrow channels of ideas and information. Our research has shown that, despite its __(5)__ against ‘globalists’, today’s alt-Right movement involves the same narrow-minded global weave of tweets, blogs and chat rooms linking physical groups across the world as the jihadi movement.
Question 6
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The case of Eugene Sun Park ________ (1) how Moore’s intellectual descendants are equally narrow-minded. When Sun Park was a student in a mainstream philosophy department in the US Midwest, he tried to encourage a more ________ (2) approach to philosophy by ________ (3) the hiring of faculty who specialise in Chinese philosophy or one other of the less commonly taught philosophies. He reports that he found himself ‘repeatedly confounded by ignorance and, at times, thinly ________ (4) racism’. One member of the faculty basically told him: ‘This is the intellectual tradition we work in. Take it or leave it.’ When Sun Park tried to at least refer to non-Western philosophy in his own ________ (5), he was advised to ‘transfer to the Religious Studies Department or some other department where “ethnic studies” would be more welcome’.
Question 7
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The case of Eugene Sun Park ________ (1) how Moore’s intellectual descendants are equally narrow-minded. When Sun Park was a student in a mainstream philosophy department in the US Midwest, he tried to encourage a more ________ (2) approach to philosophy by ________ (3) the hiring of faculty who specialise in Chinese philosophy or one other of the less commonly taught philosophies. He reports that he found himself ‘repeatedly confounded by ignorance and, at times, thinly ________ (4) racism’. One member of the faculty basically told him: ‘This is the intellectual tradition we work in. Take it or leave it.’ When Sun Park tried to at least refer to non-Western philosophy in his own ________ (5), he was advised to ‘transfer to the Religious Studies Department or some other department where “ethnic studies” would be more welcome’.
Question 8
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The case of Eugene Sun Park ________ (1) how Moore’s intellectual descendants are equally narrow-minded. When Sun Park was a student in a mainstream philosophy department in the US Midwest, he tried to encourage a more ________ (2) approach to philosophy by ________ (3) the hiring of faculty who specialise in Chinese philosophy or one other of the less commonly taught philosophies. He reports that he found himself ‘repeatedly confounded by ignorance and, at times, thinly ________ (4) racism’. One member of the faculty basically told him: ‘This is the intellectual tradition we work in. Take it or leave it.’ When Sun Park tried to at least refer to non-Western philosophy in his own ________ (5), he was advised to ‘transfer to the Religious Studies Department or some other department where “ethnic studies” would be more welcome’.
Question 9
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The case of Eugene Sun Park ________ (1) how Moore’s intellectual descendants are equally narrow-minded. When Sun Park was a student in a mainstream philosophy department in the US Midwest, he tried to encourage a more ________ (2) approach to philosophy by ________ (3) the hiring of faculty who specialise in Chinese philosophy or one other of the less commonly taught philosophies. He reports that he found himself ‘repeatedly confounded by ignorance and, at times, thinly ________ (4) racism’. One member of the faculty basically told him: ‘This is the intellectual tradition we work in. Take it or leave it.’ When Sun Park tried to at least refer to non-Western philosophy in his own ________ (5), he was advised to ‘transfer to the Religious Studies Department or some other department where “ethnic studies” would be more welcome’.
Question 10
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The case of Eugene Sun Park ________ (1) how Moore’s intellectual descendants are equally narrow-minded. When Sun Park was a student in a mainstream philosophy department in the US Midwest, he tried to encourage a more ________ (2) approach to philosophy by ________ (3) the hiring of faculty who specialise in Chinese philosophy or one other of the less commonly taught philosophies. He reports that he found himself ‘repeatedly confounded by ignorance and, at times, thinly ________ (4) racism’. One member of the faculty basically told him: ‘This is the intellectual tradition we work in. Take it or leave it.’ When Sun Park tried to at least refer to non-Western philosophy in his own ________ (5), he was advised to ‘transfer to the Religious Studies Department or some other department where “ethnic studies” would be more welcome’.
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