Directions: Fill in each numbered blank in the following passage with
ONE suitable word to complete the passage. Put your answers on the ANSWER
SHEET.
For (36) the bloodshed and tragedy of
D-Day, the beaches of Normandy will always evoke a certain (37)
: a yearning for a time when nations in the civilized world buried
their differences and combined to oppose absolute evil, when values seemed
clearer and the terrible consequences of war stopped (38) of
the annihilation of humanity. But over half a century after the allies hit those
wavebattered sand flats and towering cliffs, the Normandy invasion stands as a
feat (39) to be repeated. There will never
be (40) D-Day. Technology has changed the conditions of
warfare in ways that none of the D-Day participants could have (41)
. All-out war in the beginnings of this century would surely spell
all-out (42) for the belligerents, and possibly for the
entire human race. No credible scenario for a future world war would allow
time for the massive buildup of conventional forces that occurred in the 1940s.
The moral equivalent of the Normandy invasion in the nuclear age would involve a
presidential decision to put teas of millions of American lives at.
(43) . And the possible benefits for the allies would be
uncertain at best. European defense experts often ask whether
the U.S. would be willing to "trade Pittsburgh for Dusseldorf". In practice, the
question may well be whether it is worth (44) American
cities to avenge a Europe already (45) to rubble.