Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces
with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Henry Kissinger was born in a small town, located
(31) the south German province of Franconia, on May 27,1923.
His father was a Professor at a local high school, his mother was a house-wife;
the setting was typical German-middleclass. (32) the
Kissingers were a Jewish family in Germany that was on the brink of Nazism. He
and his younger brother were often beaten by anti-Semitic youngsters on their
way to and (33) their school; finally they were expelled and
(34) to attend an all-Jewish institution. Their father was
forced to resign his professor-ship. After years of social torture, the family
(35) to the United States in 1938. In
America, the Kissinger (36) lived in New York City, in a
neighborhood of Upper Manhattan among thousands of other (37)
and Austrian refugees. Henry Kissinger was never assimilated by the
culture and society that made up America; in taste (38)
style, he would always be distinctly European. After four years
in a New York City high school, (39) he had shown special
(40) in mathematics, Kissinger began to study accounting at
night sessions of the City University of New York, earning his tuition during
the daytime. But then, in 1943, he was drafted by the US Army, an army which was
at (41) with the Axis Powers. After the war,
his friend Kraemer got him a job (42) an instructor in an
Army training school that paid $10,000 a year. "That was real (43)
power in 1946," Kraemer would remark later. But Kissinger was
(44) interested in that materialist lure; he felt he wanted
(45) education of his own. And so he won a New York State
scholarship, gave up his well-paying (46) , and enrolled at
Harvard in September 1946. Since the Civil War, Harvard had
carefully nurtured its pipeline to the nation’s capital. In the postwar years,
the Department of State was small and unsteady; in many situations, its first
reflex was to turn (47) Harvard’s area specialists. In late
1965, Kissinger (48) invited to Saigon to investigate
American involvement in Vietnam. In the following decades he (49)
a famous activist of political and diplomatic (50)
.