Question

Read the following sentences from the speech.

Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.. . .

In which sentence does the underlined word most clearly have the same connotations as the word brutal in this passage?
A. Because of a shortage, the authorities have imposed strict limits on gasoline sales.
B. The winter cold was so harsh that a number of people were treated for frostbite.
C. The athlete undertook a strenuous training program to improve her skills.
D. He thought it was insensitive of her not to invite the couple down the hall to her party.

Answer 1

B

"Brutal" in the passage means severe/cruel; "harsh" in (B) has the same connotation of severity.