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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.