UNIT 3 CUSTOMS AND CULTURE - Exercise 1

Read the following passage about friendship and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks
Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. Baba was always telling us about their mischiefs he and Ali used to cause. But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali ___(1)___.
The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either. Not in the usual sense, anyhow. Never mind that we ___(2)___ each other to ride a bicycle with no hands, or to build a fully functional homemade camera out of a cardboard box. Never mind that we spent entire winters flying kites, running kites. Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped ___(3)___.
Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to ___(4)___ that. Nothing.
We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park. I remember being ___(5)___ Baba to take us to Iran so we could meet John Wayne.
(Adapted from Global friends)