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  In the spring of 1963 King was in Birmingham, Alabama, leading a struggle for jobs for  1 and for African - Americans to be  2 at“  3 Only”restaurants. When the police turned vicious (['viM+s]adj. 凶猛的) dogs and fire hoses (水龙带) on the  4 , they were  5 on TV screens all over the country.  6 was outrage ['autreid{]n. (愤怒). It 7 when the police arrested king  8 many children shown being beaten as they were dragged off to prison.

  In the  9 , King wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail. He  10 out that there was a  11 to obey just laws,  12 there was also a duty not to obey unjust laws. He quoted ([kw+ut]vt. 引用) the Roman Catholic Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law  13 ”He added that peaceful protest ([pr+'test]n. 抗议) was needed because “we know through painful  14 that freedom is never voluntarily given…it must be  15 …”

  The letter from Birmingham Jail drew wide  16 .Civil rights leaders agreed that there should be a protest  17 on Washington, D. C. to demand a federal law that would  18 the role of blacks as second class  19 .They named Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. the main speaker  20 the rally (['r$li]n. 集会) to follow. And so it was that 250, 000 people  21 under the hot August sun in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,  22 to hear him.

  “I have a  23 ,”the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had said on the greatest of days in  24 in 1963. Dr King was dead, but his dream will  25 be.

1.

[  ]

A.whites
B.blacks
C.people
D.himself

2.

[  ]

A.served
B.asked
C.destroyed
D.refused

3.

[  ]

A.Blacks
B.Yellow
C.Americans
D.Whites

4.

[  ]

A.streets
B.whites
C.speakers
D.protesters

5.

[  ]

A.beaten
B.separated
C.seen
D.killed

6.

[  ]

A.There
B.It
C.That
D.Which

7.

[  ]

A.disappeared
B.planted
C.grew
D.agreed

8.

[  ]

A.along with
B.for
C.but
D.like

9.

[  ]

A.room
B.prison
C.meeting
D.letter

10.

[  ]

A.took
B.carried
C.thought
D.pointed

11.

[  ]

A.rule
B.duty
C.saying
D.dream

12.

[  ]

A.but
B.so
C.then
D.because

13.

[  ]

A.in all
B.by all
C.at all
D.for all

14.

[  ]

A.speech
B.books
C.death
D.experience

15.

[  ]

A.demanded
B.caught
C.a war
D.peaceful

16.

[  ]

A.conclusion
B.reading
C.permission
D.attention

17.

[  ]

A.fight
B.march
C.speech
D.freedom

18.

[  ]

A.build
B.make
C.end
D.set

19.

[  ]

A.citizens
B.workers
C.speakers
D.whites

20.

[  ]

A.in
B.at
C.with
D.like

21.

[  ]

A.came
B.walked
C.went
D.gathered

22.

[  ]

A.1964
B.1963
C.1948
D.future

23.

[  ]

A.son
B.house
C.dream
D.future

24.

[  ]

A.Washington
B.Birmingham
C.Atlanta
D.New York

25.

[  ]

A.soon
B.seldom
C.certainly
D.never

Originally, both the British and the American spoke with a rhotic accent. Rhotic essentially means an accent where the letter “r” is pronounced strongly after a vowel (元音). Rhotic accents are strong in both the US and Scotland, but seem to have disappeared from British English and its derivatives, such as Australian English and New Zealand English.

The major American accent –– the typical accent of the mid-western US –– is rhotic, and British English is, as a rule, non-rhotic. Specifically, US speakers pronounce every “r”, wherever they appear in a word. Most British speakers (and you will note that there are some British Isle accents that are strongly rhotic, like US) do not pronounce every “r”. Americans stress the “r” at the end of words such as “teacher” or “neighbour”, but in many non-rhotic British accents it is more of a “schwa” (an unstressed sound) so it comes out as, “teacha” (unstressed) or “neighba”.

This main difference also differs across the country of origin. For example, the US has a clear difference in the accents between people of the north and south, not to mention less clear differences across the states. Similarly, British people have a different accent according to their locality. The “cockney (伦敦东区)” accent is greatly different to the middle and upper class accents.

Another common difference appears to be that Americans pronounce words such as “herbal” without the “h”. Syllables (音节) may be stressed differently, too. “Oregano” in the US tends to be pronounced “o–reg–a–no” while in British English it is more likely to be “o–reg–AH–no”.

【小题1】When a rhotic accent occurs, ______.

A. the letter “r” is silent in any positions         B. the letter “r” is sounded after a vowel

C. the ending syllable of a word is stressed      D. the ending syllable of a word is unheard

【小题2】The underlined word “derivatives” in the first paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. neighbours                      B. ancestors           C. symbols                   D. branches

【小题3】In non-rhotic British accents, ______.

A. “bother” sounds the same as “buther”                 B. “cheaper” sounds the same as “chapter”

C. “worker” sounds the same as “worka”                D. “painting” sounds the same as “paintin”

【小题4】Even in the original country of the specific English language, accents differ ____.

A. from area to area                                        B. from person to person

C. from word to word                                    D. from stress to stress

【小题5】American people trend to pronounce words like “herbal” with the “h” ______.

A. stressed                          B. silent                                                           C. changed                 D. loud

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