Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University. Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic , but Americans are one of the most religious peoples on Earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned but a gift from God, they seek to share that gift with the world. "Reason and experience," said George Washington in his farewell address, "both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. And it is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." Choose three correct answers. The underlined words in this excerpt are
Answer
A
included by Reagan to discourage increased freedom.
B
an example of procatalepsis.
C
an example of allusion.
D
used by Reagan to acknowledge an opposing view.
E
followed by a counterargument proving Reagan’s point.
Explanation
The phrase “Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic” recognizes an objection to freedom. Reagan immediately counters it by pointing out that Americans are deeply religious and seek to share liberty with the world, so the phrase is followed by a counterargument. Raising an opposing view and then answering it is procatalepsis; the passage is not discouraging freedom.
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