Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times.
When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its
general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to
fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just
heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing
information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just
heard or write clown the main points in your own words. Finally, when the
passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have
written.
Can we generate the new cultural attitudes required by our
technological virtuosity History is not very reassuring here. It has taken
centuries to learn how to live (36) in the family, the tribe,
the city, the state, and the nation. Each new (37) of human
sensitivity and loyalty has taken generations to become firmly (38)
in the human psyche. And now we are forced into a quantum leap from
the mutual suspicion and (39) that have marked the past
relations between peoples in a world in which mutual respect and (40)
are necessary. Even events of recent decades provide
little basis for (41) .Increasing physical proximity has
brought no millennium in human relations. If anything, it has appeared to
intensify the divisions among people rather than to create a broader
(42) . Every new reduction in physical distance has made us more
painfully aware of the psychic distance that divides people and has increased
alarm over real or imagined differences. If today people occasionally choke on
what seem to be indigestible differences between rich and poor, male and female,
specialist and non-specialist within cultures, what will happen tomorrow when
people must assimilate and cope with still greater (43) in
life styles (44) Time and space have long cushioned
intercultural encounters, confining them to touristic exchanges. But this
insulation is rapidly wearing thin. (45) There we will be
surrounded by foreigners for long periods of time, working with others in the
closest possible relationships. (46)