HURRY PLEASE
Q.23
This passage is taken from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987.
(4) Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same—still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
A modern writer wants to adapt the ideas from this part of the speech. He wants to add relevant support for the claim made in the fourth sentence (reproduced below) of the paragraph by including a quote from a reliable source.
But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same—still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state.
Each of the following sources could help to achieve this purpose EXCEPT
A. a local newspaper article which interviews three families affected by the travel restrictions and highlights the negative impact on their daily lives
B. an excerpt from an article published in a peer-reviewed journal that analyzes how checkpoints and travel restrictions are enforced by various totalitarian states
C. a blog post on an international university’s website which features extensive student interviews about places they would like to travel
D. a governmental database that features facts and statistics regarding mental health, unemployment, and crime rates in countries where people are not free to travel
E. a white paper from an international human rights organization that shows decreasing quality of health among citizens prohibited from traveling across checkpoints
