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33 ■ What does ‘that prediction’ (Iine 5) refer to?
a Doctors’ claims that Lesley’s intellectual development would stop at the age of three.
b Doctors’ expectations that Lesley would be backward and need looking after all her life.
c Doctors’ fears that Lesley’s mother would not get over having given birth to a
handicapped child.
34 ■ What are lines 7-9 (‘Lesley ... of us.’) meant to show?
a Lesley has tumed out to be a wonderful and capable person.
b Lesley’s sister Diane has done a lot for her.
c National competitions for handicapped peopie are very important.
35 ■ What is the ‘social revolution’ that is mentioned in line 10?
A People with Down’s syndrome are beginning to play a fuller part in the community.
B People with Down’s syndrome are more open about their handicap.
c Public interest in Down’s syndrome is growing.
D Therapies have been developed to cure Down’s syndrome.
36 ■ What point does Diane make about Lesley in Iines 17-21 (‘If... she is.’)?
a She can look after herself very well.
b She has tumed her handicap into an advantage.
c She is quicker than other people with Down’s syndrome.
o She refuses to regard herself as a handicapped person.
From the longer VWO-test 1992.
Lest we forget
Elaine Feinslein reviews Justice Not Vengeance by Simon Wiesenthal
___L It is often claimed that trials of Nazi criminals are by now irrelevant and vindictive
___l rather than part of the ordinary process of law. I suggest that anyone who has ever
___1 wondered whether there was not something peculiarly unforgiving about Wiesenthal’s
___i pursuit of these criminals over the years shouid read Simon Wiesenthal’s book Justice Not
___! Vengeance. They will fmd a totally convincing chronicle of pragmatic complicity after the
___í war among those who decided to overlook Nazi conneaions, and may begin to
___I understand Wiesenthal’s obsessional search for the guilty who go free.
___! The driving force behind Wiesenthal’s painstaking and persistent efforts to bring
___! the murderers and sadists of the Nazi era to justice has been that guilt of the survivor so
___12 well described by Primo Levi. Wiesenthal acknowledges his difficulty in making sense of
_L the accidents that brought about his own survival when so many others ‘better, cleverer,
more decent’ were murdered.
___12 Temperamentally, he seems more suited to the careful daily assembly of
u documentary evidence than the detective work which led to the capture of Gestapo chief
_12 Eichmann. A wise moral discrimination leads him to distinguish between the decency of
___1! one concentration camp guard and the callousness of another, and his idea of justice
17 includes a large component of appropriateness. He is always insistent that it is the laws
18 of society rather than individual vengeance which must decide the fate of those whom he
_I2 accuses.
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