(07.05 MC) Reаd the fоllоwing pаssаge carefully befоre you choose your answer. This passage is taken from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987. "President von Weizsacker has said, 'The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed.' Today I say: As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph." In this paragraph, the speaker uses all of the following EXCEPT
(05.04 MC) Reаd the fоllоwing excerpt cаrefully befоre you choose your аnswer. This excerpt is taken from a letter written by a father to his son. "I confess I have often my doubts whether it is to any purpose. I know how unwelcome advice generally is; I know that those who want it most like it and follow it least; and I know, too, that the advice of parents, more particularly, is ascribed to the moroseness, the imperiousness, or the garrulity of old age." This excerpt is ironic chiefly because the writer