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Genocide occurs when one group of people want to 18 AC another group of people because ofdifferences of race, religion, culture, or political views. The slaughter of the Tutsi by the Hutu in theEast African country of Rwanda in 1994 is just one recent horrific example of genocide where, over athree-month period, nearly one million men, women, and children were 19 E like animals in theirhomes and on the streets.It is widely believed that the 20 BC for the genocide came when a plane carrying the Hutupresident Habyarimana was shot down by the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front. But the actual root ofthe Hutu-Tutsi conflict was a tradition of racial hatred as old as the hills.The Tutsi had ruled over Rwanda since the fifteenth century, but the Hutu had always comprised alarge majority (80-85%) of the population. The Hutu were generally considered peasants and were quite21 B compared to the Tutsi ruling class (the word Tutsi actually means “rich in cattle”). As theTutsi continued to strengthen their power and authority, they distributed land to individuals theyfavored—usually other Tutsi—instead of allowing it to be passed from generation to generation as hadbeen done for centuries.This caused immense 22 C among the Hutu, as they were forced by the Tutsi to labor on  their own land in exchange for the right to inhabit it. Inevitably, a social revolution took place in 1959,and a Hutu was 23 A as president, causing many Tutsi to flee the country. The tables had turnedon the Tutsi.Still, after decades of Hutu rule, the Hutu and the Tutsi could not see eye to eye. It was agreedamong many of the Hutu that the only way Rwanda could ever become a stable country would be if theHutu drove out or killed all of the Tutsi people. The attack on President Habyarimana’s plane was the24 AE that lit the gunpowder. The organization of the killings happened swiftly, as governmentalforces sent radio broadcasts to Hutu citizens urging them to 25 AB their Tutsi neighbors. The Hutusucceeded in wiping out 75% of the Tutsi race, and the Rwandan genocide became known as one ofmankind’s darkest moments. 
 
(A)secured
(B) impoverished
(C) resentment
(D) lenience
(E) butchered(AB) slay (AC) terminate (AD) oblivion (AE) spark (BC) trigger
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答案：A,C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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