Speakout Advanced p 49. Guns Under Fire . Extra Cloze



Guns Under Fire
In (0) ….its... article “Guns Under Fire”, Rolling Stone magazine has reported that (1) …………. the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the issue of gun control has never been (2) ………… hot in the USA. Over recent years there has (3) ………… a rash of high profile incidents relating to gun violence in schools and in the streets of the country. The alarm (4) ………… firearm safety is so great that schools in many states have “gun drills”.
Ellen Freudenheim runs a non-profit organization called the Silent March, which works (5) ………… gun-violence prevention. She tells us, “Thirty thousand people are killed in a single year, which is about 80% more than in (6) ………… other nation in the world”.
The National Rifle Association’s power (7) ………… buy politicians has traditionally made (8) ………… a formidable force in any election. However, today (9) ………… is felt that this position is weakening. Used to a disorganized opposition, the NRA must now confront a unified block (10) ………… pro-gun control voters.
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