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intense updraft near their center which is capable of lifting quite heavy    ethnic or religious group. When President Bush, the elder, openly said
objects from 27. ground. 28 tornado, therefore, is 29. dark, funnel-         he disliked 13. taste of 14. broccoli it became 15. headlines in
shaped cloud containing violently rotating air. It can pick up 30. trees     16. news and angered 17. farmers who raised this crop Ghosts emerge
and cars right into 31. air and even uplift heavier objects such as          from 18. president’s past to haunt him and long-lost relatives, who
homes and railway cars. Like 32. vacuum cleaner across 33. rug, it           should have remained better forgotten and left to obscurity, suddenly
sucks up into the air anything which may lie in its path. These storms       appear in 19. limelight. The confidentiality of his college grades are
occur most often during the summer months and are noticeable by their        brought to the surface and 20. nation soon learns if he was 21. honor
strong wind and lack of rain. 34. sky turns black as dust is sucked up       student or barely made it to graduation. The president’s wife, who is
into the air. 35.Tornadoes travel normally at around 60 kilometers per       known as 22. First Lady, also receives special attention. So do his
36. hour and the winds can reach 800 kilometers per hours in 37. most        children and close friends. 23. Comments made in 24. jest are taken
violent storms. Tornadoes are most frequent in 38. United States 39.         seriously. If her were 25. good athlete in his college days, 26. public
east of 40. Rocky Mountains and especially in 41. central plains area        will expect to see pictures of how he performed. If he has 27. secret
of the Mississippi basin where about 150 occur each year. Tornadoes          retreat somewhere in 28. country, the public will want to know of its
may also strike 42. southern states in winter and have even been known       whereabouts. His health also is 29. matter of 30. public concern.
to develop in the northeast.                                                 Should he be 31. smoker , everyone will know how many cigarettes he
Both 43. hurricanes and 44. tornadoes cause millions of dollars worth        smokes daily. Should he be hospitalized, the attending physician will
of damage each year. Today they can be predicted more easily than in         hold 32. press conference and describe the nature of the illness. The
45. past, but they cannot be stopped or ignored.                             American people watch their president’s life unfold on 33. TV as if
                                                                             they were members of his own immediate family. Perhaps nowhere
TEXT TWO                             THE PRESIDENT’S PRIVACY                 was this sense of exploitation drawn to the extreme than with the
                                                                             events leading up to 34. impeachment of 35. President Clinton by
Americans cherish their privacy and this right is protected by 1. Consti-    36. House of Representatives. The truth became tabloid and privacy
tution. 2. Most questions about 3. religion, 4. finances and family          became a perversion. It became 37. situation in which all of the people
are pretty much private matters which are carefully guarded by each          involved became losers. As president he becomes the nation’s scape-
and every individual. Yet, when it comes to 5. President of 6. United        goat, rather than its leader. Unfortunately, the tragic effect of this scru-
States his life becomes our own. Unfortunately, once 7. person is            tiny is reflected in 38. lack of men willing to assume elected offices.
elected to this most revered office and is sworn in as president, his life   39. Qualified men of good character are now dissuaded from entering
is not closed like 8. book but is completely opened to 9. public. There      40. politics.
is hardly any aspect of his life which is not revealed, exploited and held
up to public scrutiny. We learn 10. things about the president which we      TEXT THREE                                                NICKNAMES
would resent wanting anyone else to know about ourselves. His likes
and dislikes are thoroughly investigated, analyzed and judged and sub-       Americans have 1. great love for 2. informality and nowhere is this
jected to commentary. His favorite actors and musicians, movies,             better expressed than in their love for 3. nicknames. Upon greeting
books, snack foods, vacation spots and hobbies are all exposed to the        strangers for 4. first time they will quickly introduce themselves by
public for either 11. criticism or 12. curiosity. He may often find him-     their nickname. These are shortened forms of their given name at 5.
self very careful in voicing his dislikes lest they should offend some       birth and reflect the casual relationships which exist among friends and

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