1. Freedom fighters can be found __________, and they are _______________.
5. According to this text, in which country did women first gain the right to vote?
A. America. B. New Zealand. C. France. D. South Africa.
2: complete the following sentences after reading the text
4. The main purpose of this text is that __________.
A. freedom fighters and activists for the rights of different groups always try to improve conditions
B. you can only find freedom fighters in America, France, South African and New Zealand
C. only in modern times are there some organizations that fight against racial discrimination
D. most people are wondering whether we should fight for the rights of robots and machines
3. Some of the organizations struggle for the rights of the following things EXCEPT _______.
A. animals B. plants C. violence D. the oceans and the earth
2. What the organizations have in common is that ______.
A. they ask to be treated with respect B. they ask to share the rights to work
C. they ask to have good housing conditions and education
D. they demand as equal rights as the whites enjoy in the USA
1. When did people begin to give a voice to groups that don’t have a voice to speak for themselves?
A. In 1893. B. Between the 16th and 18th centuries.
C. In 1872. D. In the 20th century
1. Multiple choices
I have a dream
In the summer of 1963 Martin Luther King. Jr gave a speech to thousands of black people who _______ on Washington DC, the capital of the USA. His speech – “I Have a Dream” – made him famous ____ _____ _____ ________.
At that time in the southern states, blacks were not treated as equal citizens. Although ___________ ended in the USA in 1865, almost a hundred years before, the South had its own laws to continue the _________ of blacks and whites. ____________ marriages were________ by law. There were separate sections for blacks in shops, restaurants, hospitals and on buses and trains. Often blacks were not_________ into hotels, schools or libraries at all. Black children were educated in ________ schools, and black people had no right to _______ in the southern states.
King fought for _______ rights for black people in the USA. By doing this he _____ ___ _________ to the rest of the world. His message was that black people should not be separated but should be treated _______ _________ in the same way as other people.
Born in 1929, king went to university when he was fifteen. Winning a_________ gave him the chance to go to a college in one of the northern states, where black people had equal rights and necessary to_________ changes in society if people did not have their _______ ______. He believed that he could ________ that_____ by peaceful actions, not ___ _______.
On December I, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, got on a bus in Alabama and sat down in the “Whites-only”_____. She______ to stand up for a white man and was _____ by the police. King led a ________ of the bus company. For 381 days, black people refused to take the city buses _______________ the government ________ in capital said that the bus company was wrong to _______ blacks _______ whites.
______ _____ _____ gave King national attention. He led many ___________ ____________ against __________ discrimination and the Vietnam War, during which he himself was often _____ or ________ by the police one of these was in Birmingham, Alabama. ________ conditions for blacks in Birmingham were bad and there were few jobs for blacks.
It was during the “March on Washington DC” in 1963 that the gave the speech “ I Have a Dream”, which ______ people of all _______ to fight for _______. The _______ years, King received the Noble Peace Prize. In the same year, a new Civil Rights Act was passed and in 1965 a new Voting Rights Bill became law. ______ _____ ___, all black people had the right to vote.
Martin Luther King, Jr was __________ in 1968. However, his struggle had already changed the whole of society in the USA. Soon after his death, black people ________ ________ the rights they had waited and ______ ______ so long.
20. What good does it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his _______ (灵魂)?