Section: Critical Reading Section 1

Question 84 of 115


84) (1) When I visited England last year, I wanted to
attend a football match (football in England is what is
called soccer in the U.S.). (2) My mother wouldn’t let
me. (3) She tells me, “the fans are much too violent.”
(4) I really wanted to go so I did some research on
English fans’ violence.

(5) Through my research I realized that my mother
would never let me go to a game. (6) But beyond that,
felt sad that hooliganism was such a reality in the
English game. (7) They cause riots, and innocent foot-
ball fans are sometimes injured by them when football-
related fights get out of control.

(8) England had tried all sorts of remedies to stop
the violence, but they couldn’t stop hooliganism from
increasing. (9) The officials tried creating lists of people
banned from stadiums. (10) At international matches
some known hooligans weren’t even allowed into the
country. (11) Some say that the older generation of
hooligans was teaching the younger. (12) It is just
human nature and crowd mentality. (13) But there was
an argument that rang even more true for me: poverty
was an underlying cause. (14) Economic data indicat-
ing that the football teams with the highest rate of vio-
lence were situated in the poorest areas.


In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?

She tells me, "the fans are much too violent."