填空题 So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my 1 also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had 2 down almost everywhere: In this country 3 a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too 4 . As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested 5 this just as vehemently as student 6 are protesting today. But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the 7 , went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat 8 for a long time. The box 9 the fur came out of was 10 the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, 11 looking, laid it inside. But when she put the 12 on she thought she heard something crying. The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on 13 those who remain and those who leave. Such as 14 is, the ghetto is regarded as 15 place to make a career for those who have a future. Without 16 , the prime American values underscore the 17 . Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the 18 like travelers. I know that American technical genius, and 19 of all the moon landing, seems to give the 20 to too summary a condemnation of the 21 system, but there is more to education 22 the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the 23 as a force still miraculously fertile and moving—mostly 24 from American education at all levels.