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. One word or expression for each blank only.

     The trouble with television is that it _________ concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some _________, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the _________ gifted of us can achieve things that seem _________ to those who never concentrate on anything. But television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant _________. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain. 

     Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself _________. Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, _________ the orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich _________ unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from _________. At times they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is limited, _________ after youth is past.

     The _________ between a single individual's success and the bootstrap effort of the mass of ghetto youth is and remains too _________ to comport with reality. This was made clear to me during the discussions of the Harlem riots on those hot summer days in Vienna. It _________ the notion that my individual progress could be hailed as an advance for all Negroes. Regrettably, it was an advance _________ for me. Earlier I had thought the success I had won satisfied an _________ I had to all Negroes. 

     This is a matter which has been too little considered, _________ by moralists and by social reformers. The social reformers are of the opinion that they have more serious things to _________. The moralists, on the other hand, are immensely impressed _________ the seriousness of all the permitted outlets of the love of excitement; the seriousness, however, in their _________ is that of Sin. Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, _________ to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins. 

     The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic "point", _________ in its power to _________ activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with _________ of fleas: it is not likely to become comatose. Every snobbery demands of its devotees _________ efforts, a succession of sacrifices The society-snob must be _________ lion-hunting: the modernity-snob can never rest from trying to be up-to-date.

A. only       B. consider         C. minds           D. shattered          E. tiresome
F. especially      G. parallel      H. miraculous      I. perpetually      J. both
K. suffer      L. gateways      M. stimulate      N. drudgery          O. obligation
P. tenuous      Q. constructive      R. consists     S. least        T. plenty
U. with       V. provided      W. unceasing       X. discourages        Y. gratification