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.

     Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all _______ are absolute). I didn't question _______ Mrs. Flowers had singled me out for attention, nor did it occur to me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking _______. All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and _______ to me from her favorite book. It was enough to _______ that she liked me. 

     The key is to segment the market vertically. This _______ the company to pitch specific customers with _______ services that no other company can begin to provide. Example: One customer _______ is the legal profession. Cable & Wireless is developing _______ and functions that have tremendous _______ to lawyers. 

     However, patterns of _______ by Asian-Americans to this country, the cultural _______, language problems and discrimination they have faced have all taken a _______ of their elderly and their families. This is particularly _______ of older Chinese men, who were not allowed to _______ their wives and families with them to the United States or to intermarry. 

     This increased my natural hatred of _______ and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had _______ me some understanding of the nature of _______; but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate _______ orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still _______ to reach a firm decision. 

     I remember going to a writer for a _______ magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should _______. He agreed, but said it would never get _______ his desk because the Army would rescind the magazine's _______ to cover the war, and if you don't cover the war you don't sell magazines, and if you don't sell magazines then _______ happens because that's the American way. 

A authority      B accreditation     C conclusions     D segment       E nothing
F national        G to                        H specialized       I political         J. bring
K prove            L by                        M why                 N given            O appeal
P hear              Q enables               R features           S toll                T immigration
U imperialism V true                     W failed              X barriers         Y read