Cloze - Ignorance In America

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surprisingly sought political while has their thinking coming   ; been was
It ___________taken years of indifference and stupidity to make Americans as ignorant as they are today. Anyone who has ____________ to teach the latest generations can tell you how much less students coming out of high school know every year. ___________ this was shocking at first, it no longer surprises college lecturers that the nice and eager young people enrolled in __________classes have no ability to understand most of the material being taught. Teaching American literature, as I have ________doing, has become much harder in recent years, since the students read little literature before ___________ to college and often lack the most basic historical information about the period in which the novel or the poem _________written, including what important ideas and issues occupied ________ people at the time. Not _____________, this ignorance has a profound effect on people'sinvolvement in the democratic process and their preception of the current ___________scene.