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The text admits that Dutch culture, understood as “collective ways of seeing themselves, and the world beyond”, in lines 5 and 6, was a conscious invention.
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Although conceived by a few local intellectuals and elite members, Dutch culture exerted an appeal over the rest of the country because the latter saw themselves reflected by those artistic expressions.
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As a consequence of the extreme fragmentation of American policy-making and diplomacy, ambassadors of the United States represent only the interests of the federal government abroad.
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Texts of treaties agreed upon by the American chief executive in an international negotiation might come to be later rejected or modified by the Senate of the United States.
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Effective diplomacy in the traditional sense assumed that commitments made through the diplomatic process would be enforced by a single center of power in the diplomat’s own country, irrespective of any resistance from other domestic authorities.
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The word “acute” (line 27) could be replaced with mutual without changing the meaning of the sentence.
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In line 7, the expression “there are no constraints in their contacts” means that their contacts remain regular.
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In lines 10 to 12, in the passage “this is more straightforward when no formal breach of relations has taken place”, “more straightforward” could be replaced by less complex without changing the meaning of the sentence.
Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E).
In lines 2, 11, and 12, the word “breach” could not be replaced by severance in any of the situations without changing the meaning of the sentences.
