II. Cloze Test (30%； 2% each)
        UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled by the escalating violence inMyanmar and the __21__ human suffering and displacement this is causing.
        We are shocked by the indiscriminate violence against civilians across thecountry, __22__ the renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic armedgroups in some border areas.
        These events in Myanmar are driving people to flee __23__ the country and acrossborders.We urgently call on countries across the region to offer refuge and protection to allthose fleeing for safety. It is vital that anyone crossing the border, seeking asylum inanother country, is able to access it.
        It is a proven fact that humane border practices can be upheld amid public healthand other border control measures, to __24__ that people in need of protection canaccess territory and asylum.
        Children, women and men fleeing for their lives should be given __25__ .They __26__ returned to a place where their lives or freedom may be at risk. Thisprinciple of non-refoulement is a(n) __27__ of international law and is __28__ on allstates.
        Myanmar’s neighbours have a decades-long history of providing protection andassistance to refugees. __29__ the situation in Myanmar deteriorates further, we callon states to __30__ their lifesaving humanitarian tradition of safeguarding the lives ofall those forced to flee. (The UN Refugee Agency)
【題組】21.
(A) connective
(B) causative
(C) resulting
(D) conceptual