4906

111

11.Americans remain the biggest producer of firearms with some of the …rules and controls for buying and owning them.

a.laxest

b.untamed

c.vital

12.As long as the American attitude to firearms remains stuck in … and refuses to grow up to that of an adult, more and more adolescents will kill and be killed.

a.prowess

b.reservations

c.adolescence

Key: I. 1b; 2a; 3a; 4c; 5b; 6a; 7b; 8c; 9c; 10a; 11a; 12c.