The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.

     The child was fairly eating me up with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed, inwardly, ______ ; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a heifer in_____. But her face was flushed, she was breathing ______ , and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent______hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often reproduced in_______leaflets and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.
     It is still women—about three million volunteers—who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of_______can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is________for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party________. In such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and_______national meetings and conventions, where her_______is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.
     The value of art-snobbery to living artists is considerable. True, most art-snobs________only the works of the dead; for an Old Master is both a________investment and a holier culture-symbol than a______master. But some art-snobs are also modernity-snobs. There are_______of them, with the few eccentrics who like works of art for their own________, to provide living artists with the means of subsistence.
     Without thinking, we are making an important confession about ourselves as a nation. We are________quality—even, to some extent, the quality of people. The “best” is becoming too________for us. We are suckling_________on machine-made mediocrity. It is bad for our souls, our minds, and our digestion. It is the________our wiser and calmer forebears________, not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.
     There is a difference between my schooling and the wisdom of the street corner. I________the life of a black man in Watts is larger than a federal________program. If there is no future for the black ghetto, the future of all Negroes is_________. What affects it, affects me, for I am a_______of the ghetto. When they do it to Watts, they do it to me, too. I’ll never escape from the ghetto. I have_______my all on its future. Watts is my home.
A. good B. staked C. rapidly D. organizing E. living
F. enough G. safer H. ourselves I. fed J. diminished
K. child L. appearance M. them N. sometimes O. sake
P. abandoning Q. poverty R. rewarded S. blonde T. collect
U. advertising V. quiet W. way X. know Y. role