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 and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
     When I was graduating from college, my generation also found the world in a ___1___ . The economic machinery had broken ___2___ almost everywhere：In this country nearly a quarter of the ___3___was out of work. A major war seemed all ___4___  likely. As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested against this___5___as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.  
     I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain ___6___ so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so. When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the ___7___— and it satisfied us. A ___8___of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your jam desire. But, of the ___9___ tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam, you need half a cupful to get the ___10___ of what you're eating.  
     Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is ___11___that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even___12___ . We are not only not attaining it ___13___ a nation, statistically speaking, but we are falling further and further ___14___ of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it ___15___ and is an influence.  
     To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s ___16___ in human nature, for, even after the ___17___ eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting ___18___ the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain. They sink, ___19___ once, into stupid, heavy slumber, leaving you to your own ___20___ devices. And they all snore abominably! 
     Downtown, she ___21___ her car in a garage. Everything was getting ready for this moment. She did not carry the flowers in her ___22___ but she carried them in her heart. Now she was going to find out ___23___ it was death or life. Either ___24___ could tolerate. It did not ___25___ to her that the newsreel might not be there.