C. Honesty is the cause of a good life. D. Honesty is the most important thing.
Understanding a Movie Speech: Now listen to a speech from the movie The Great Dictator and fill in the blanks according to what you hear.
Barber: I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business. I don't want to 1) ___ or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if 2) ____-- Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's 3) ___, not by each other's misery. We don't want to 4) ___ and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is 5) ____ and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and 6) ___ . But we have lost the way.
Greed has 7) ____ men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have 8) ___ ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our 9) ____ has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we
need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these 10) ____, life will be violent and all will be lost.
