Section B
Directions: Fill in each blanks with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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A. caught B. contexts C. flashed D. flood
E. migrated F. misspelled G. label H. spot
I. term J. trick K. understood
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Touching the thumb and index finger to make a circle, with the remaining three fingers held outstretched, is a gesture that people around the world have made for centuries, mostly in positive ___31___. But in recent years, it has been converted for a more vicious purpose – to signify “white power”. Here is how the hand gesture became a disturbing one.
The widely ___32___ modern use of the gesture for approval seems to have arisen along with the ___33___ “O.K.” in the 19th century when Charles Gordon Greene wrote jokingly in The Boston Morning Post about it being an intentionally ___34___ abbreviation for “all correct”. The expression ___35___ on, and the hand gesture, with the fingers forming something vaguely like an O and a K, became closely linked with it.
It became connected to “white power” in early 2017 as a hoax（骗局）. Some users of 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, began what they called “Operation O-KKK” to see if they could ___36___ the wider world – and especially liberals and the mainstream media – into believing that the gesture was actually a secret symbol of white power. “We must ___37___ twitter and other social media websites with spam, claiming that the OK hand signal is a symbol of white supremacy,” one of the users posted, going on to suggest that everyone involved create fake social media accounts to spread the notion as widely as possible.
The 4chan hoax succeeded all too well
and ceased being a hoax: Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white nationalists began using the gesture in public to signal their presence and to ___38___ potential sympathizers and recruits. For them, the letters formed by the hand were not O and K, but W and P, for “white power”.
A number of high-profile figures on the far right have helped spread the gesture’s racist implication by producing it conspicuously in public. The gesture has ___39___ beyond ironic trolling culture to become a “sincere expression of white supremacy”, which could be seen in March 2019 when Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist accused of killing 50 people in back-to-back mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, smiled and ____40____ the sign to reporters at a court hearing on his case.
【答案】31. B 32. K
33. I 34. F
35. A 36. J
37. D 38. H
39. E 40. C
