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Directions: in the following questions, you have passages where some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Man's basic aggressiveness is a fact and is the emotional factor for all the bloody violence that has marked human history since the beginning. His technology has never been as perfectly 181 as in the weapons he makes to 182 his brothers. The plough has changed very 183 in design from the time man took 184 cultivation. But swords have not become 185 and the rifle, with which one man kills another, is a 186 in comparison with the stone and 187 with which he used to 188 his adversaries in the earliest stage of civilization. Nuclear 189 has designs that nature can never 190. They are wonders of technological creation.

A) miracle

B) masterpiece

C) legend

D) model