Question

Read the excerpt.

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war. What is the main idea of this passage from John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address?


The world should take sides in the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.


The world will not be a safe place until both sides have destroyed their nuclear arms.


The United States and the Soviet Union must work together to avoid nuclear war.


The United States will defeat the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race.


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Answer 1

the answer is c The United States and the Soviet Union must work together to avoid nuclear war.

Answer 2

This speech by President Kennedy, which represents his address to the nation and the entire world at the start of his administration, speaks of the high hopes that he brings to peace. Instead of continuing the arms race, and supporting the dark power of destruction that threatens to take over the entire world, he is demanding that both parties in the Cold War “begin anew the quest for peace.” Only if both sides work on it, on mutual benefit, and this is a relief from everyday race and anxiety over the deadly threat, the two strongest powers of the Cold War, can contribute to not reaching the final war of the human race. Thus, he undoubtedly calls for disarmament, the establishment of peace and the reduction of tension and possible temptations to prove their own power, not because of weakness, but because of the peace of prosperity of democracy, precisely as Kennedy was known.

The answer is: C.