She 1 to me because she was like people I had never met 2 . Like women in English novels who 3 the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful 4 . Like the women who sat in front of roaring 5 , drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the "heath" and read morocco-bound books and had two last names 6 by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.
Homes and restaurants do what they can with this 7 —— which my mother-in-law would
8 on the spot. I have long thought that the 9 blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city 10 . For I am sure that if you 11 them blindfolded, you couldn.t tell the beans from the 12 , the turnips from the squash. Chavel was filled with a huge and 13 joy. It seemed to him that already he was 14 —— twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The 15 had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and 16 carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was 17 : one couldn.t mock the condemned one by any 18 of relief.
Red Indians, while they were still 19 by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but 20 , inhaling so deeply that they sank into a 21 . And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them 22 to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the 23 that we (according to our temperament) 24 from a horse 25 or a General Election.
A. taboo B. faint C. shameful D. orgiastically E. saved
F. race G.. up H. peas I. sign J. famed
K. fireplaces L. indicated M. stuff N. personally O. chances
P. enjoyment Q. distance R. vegetables S. discard T. divided
U. unaffected V. pureed W. walked X. appealed Y derive
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