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Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This
Wall" speech.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West
Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in
Germany-busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments,
proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land.
Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed,
today there are two great universities, orchestras and an
opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was
want, today there's abundance.... From devastation,
from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a
city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth..
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you."
But in the West today, we see a free world that has
achieved a level of prosperity and well-being
unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist
world, we see failure, technological backwardness,
declining standards of health, even want of the most basic
kind-too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still
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Which statement best describes Reagan's main message
for his audience in this excerpt?
The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the war.
The United States is more powerful than the Soviet
Union.
O Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism
does.
Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many
accomplishments.
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