試題詳解

25.

(A) infiltrate.
(B) interprete.
(C) implore.
(D) insinuate.
After the mass gun murders at Virginia Tech, I wrote about the unfathomable image of cell phones ringing in the pockets of the dead kids, and of the parents trying (26) to reach them. And I said (as did many others), This will go on, if no one stops it, in this manner and to this degree in this country alone—alone among all the industrialized, wealthy, and so-called (27) countries in the world. There would be another, for certain.

Then there were—many more, in fact—and when the latest and worst one happened, in Aurora, I (and many others) said, this time in a tone of despair, that nothing had changed. And I (and many others) predicted that it would happen again, soon. And that once again, the same twisted voices would say, Oh, this had nothing to do with gun laws or the misuse of the Second
(28) or anything except some singular madman, of whom America for some reason
seems to have a particularly dense sample.

And now it has happened again, bang, like clockwork, one might say: Twenty dead children—
babies, really—in a kindergarten in a prosperous town in Connecticut. And a mother screaming.
And twenty families told that their grade-schooler had died. After the Aurora killings, I did a few
debates with advocates for the child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby—and, without
(29) and with a mad vehemence, they told the same old lies: it doesn't happen here
more often than elsewhere (yes, it does); more people are protected by guns than killed by them
(no, they aren't—that's a flat-out fabrication); guns don't kill people, people do; and all the other
perverted lies that people who can only be called knowing (30) to murder continue to
repeat, people who are in their own way every bit as twisted and crazy as the killers whom they
defend. (That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single
embryo only makes the craziness still crazier.)