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II. Contextual Choice: Choose the most appropriate one for each blankwithout considering if a capital letter is needed. (2%*10=20%)
(A) inundated
(B) reproduction
(C) fell blame to
(D) touchstone
(E) inaugurated (AB) congenial to (AC) consolidates (AD) subservience(AE) intoxication (BC) regime (BD) premiered (BE) exasperation(CD) paradigm (CE) dystopia (DE) submit toMargaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale seared this image intoour souls with its depiction of a near-future 11 in which women are forcedinto reproductive slavery to bear the children of the elite – and wear this uniformto underline their 12 . For more than three decades, the image has shown upon the covers of the book around the world, on posters from the 1990 film, in adsfor the 2017 TV series, and even on real women at demonstrations forreproductive rights. The handmaid we’re presumably seeing in most of theseimages, though we often don’t know for sure, is Offred, the tale’s narrator. As ahandmaid in the Republic of Gilead, she must routinely 13 ritualistic sexwith her commander, Fred. (Her name derives from the term “of Fred.”) She’s oneof the still-fertile women rounded up for the job of 14 after many women inthe ruling class were rendered infertile by environmental toxins. Before a couptoppled the US government to form the new theocratic state Gilead, she wasmarried to a man named Luke and had a young daughter.It wasn’t until last year, when The Handmaid’s Tale 15 on Hulu as atelevision series adaptation, that the work got its pop cultural due. The handmaid’stale is almost impeccable, with the artistic composition, the atmosphere of thedetails, the actor's superb acting and the tone of the dialogue. The mutual satireechoing the storyline, will be a scary warning words in front of the eyes. Theshow’s producers changed details to bring the series into the present day, includingmodern 16 like Uber, Tinder, cappuccinos, and Craigslist in flashbacks toOffred’s pre-handmaid life. But the series felt all the more chilling because of themassive shift in US politics with the election of Donald Trump, who was 17just three months before the series debut. Suddenly, the book and series’ majorflashpoints felt more possible than ever: a government declaring martial law afteran attack by Islamic extremists, a 18 that systematically eliminates gaypeople, a society that prioritizes procreation and subjugation of women above all3else. “How eerily prescient that the Republic of Gilead was established by a coupwhen Christian fundamentalists, repelled by an overly liberal, godless, andpromiscuous society, assassinated the president, machine-gunned Congress,declared a national state of emergency, and 19 Islamic fanatics,’” JoyceCarol Oates wrote in a Handmaid retrospective in 2006. “As in Orwell’s 1984, theRepublic 20 its strength by maintaining continual wars against demonized‘enemies.’”
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