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Vocabulary

A. In the following text there are 10 missing words or phrases. From the list after the text select the
correct choice for each blank (1-10).

Psychologists say that when a person makes a moral choice, two things 1-------- : one is the act of choosing;
the other is the various feelings, impulses and 2---------- which his/ her psychological outfit presents the
person with, and which are the raw material of his/her choice. Now this raw material may be of two kinds.
3------------ it may be what we 4 ------------ normal: it 5----------- feelings that are common to all people; or
else it may consist of quite unnatural feelings 6--------- things that have gone wrong in the subconscious.
Thus, fear of things that are really dangerous would be an example of the first kind; an irrational fear of
7----------- things would be an example of the second. What psychoanalysis undertakes to do is 8 ------------
the abnormal feelings, that is, to give a person better raw material for his acts of choice; morality is
concerned with the acts of choice themselves.

Put it 9---------. Imagine two men go to war. One has the natural fear of danger which he 10----------
subdue by a moral effort and become a brave man. The other has exaggerated fears which no amount of
moral effort can do anything about.

1 A. had been B. are involved C. are evolved D. are revolved


involved
2 A. etc. B. go on C. other D. so on
3 A. neither B. suppose C. suggest D. either
4 A. must call B. would call C. need a call D. need not call
5 A. comprises B. consists from C. contains in D. consists of
6 A. due to B. thanking to C. thanks to D. thanks them
7 A. unharmed B. less harmed C. harmful D. harmless
8 A. move out B. move off C. to remove D. to move
9 A. right away B.this way C. no way D. away
10 A. is allowed to B. is capable of C. managed D. can

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