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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题46 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET.  After a racist massacre by a white gunman in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Mr Obama has comforted black America as no other president could. And he has been a voice of 1 . America, he has 2 people, has come a long way on race; those who think it has not should listen to blacks who lived through the 1950s, 1960s or 1970s. But he also noted that 3 inequalities remain.  Mr Obama first soared to fame, more than a decade ago, with a speech decrying those who would divide the country into black and white Americas. He was right to do so, but that is not the end of the 4 . In general the state should be colour-blind, but the police cannot do their job well 5 they make extra efforts to forge links of trust with minority communities, and schools should pay 6 attention to groups who flounder (苦苦挣扎).  Sensibly, Mr Obama does not talk about financial reparations for past injustices, and is not interested in assigning blame for racial gaps. 7 he talks of promoting equality of 8 , through such painstaking but vital things as early-childhood education, reading schemes, apprenticeships at private companies and mentoring to spot young men when they are first drifting 9 trouble. His most immediate answer to 10 poverty is a proposal to expand the earned-income tax credit, doubling the maximum credit for a childless worker to $1,000 a year and increasing the income level at which it is phased out. This is a good idea: such wage subsidies not only lift people ( of all races) out of 11 ; they also encourage them to work, which is the 12 to social mobility.  Racial ills that 13 over centuries will not be 14 in the last 18 months of Mr Obamas presidency. Meanwhile, Americans can draw co