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I. 词汇练习： A. Spelling: (10%) 1. The people there are fighting to gain their f ________from foreign control. 2. There have been several m________ this year. 3. The r____________ are attacking the palace. 4. She has very strong p_______ opinions. 5. He f__________________ his children sweets because he didn’t want their teeth to be ruined. 6. They are b_____________ the shop because the people there are on strike. 7. Islam and Buddhism are two of the great r____________ of the world. 8. Slavery was a__________________ in the US in the 19th century. 9. They accused him of having a p______________________ against his women employees. 10. It’s r__________________ that we should have to queue, when we’ve already got our tickets.
B. Complete the passage according to what you learned: (20%) Born in 1929, King went to university when he was fifteen. Winning a _____1_____ gave him the chance to go to a college in one of the northern states, where black people had __2___ ___3___ and were free to live, study and work as they wished. All his life he believed that it was right and necessary to _____4____ changes in ____5_____ if people did not have their civil rights. He believed that he could ___6____ that goal by peaceful actions, not by ____7_____. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, got on a bus in Alabama and sat down in the “ White –only” ___8___. She refused to stand up for a white man and was arrested by the police. King led a ___9___ of the bus company. In the end the government lawyers in the capital said that the bus company was wrong to ___10___ blacks from whites.
Winning this case gave King __11___ ___12____. He led many non-violent _____13______ against _____14_____ _____15_____ and the Vietnam War, during which he himself was often beaten or arrested by the police. It was during the “March on Washington DC” in 1963 that he gave the speech “ I Have a Dream”, which ____16____ people of all races to fight for ____17______. The following year, King received the Nobel Peace Prize. In the same year, a new Civil Rights Act was passed and in 1965 a new Voting Rights Bill became law. _____18_____ _____19_____ _____20______, all black people had the right to vote.
C. Fill in the blanks with the proper words: (10%)
1. When I die, will my _____ go to heaven? 2. The law forbids discrimination on the grounds of _____ or religion. 3. On what charges do you ____ him? 4. Her first _________________was not very happy. 5. The new law ____________________against lower-paid workers. 6. We will have to put the matter to the ________________. 7. I can’t take her seriously because she always seems to be ________. 8. India became _________________of Britain in 1947. 9. The management has refused to agree to our _____ for a 6% pay rise. 10. A judge must be free from ____.
D. Fill in the blanks with the proper phrases: (10%)
start with, put---in prison, from then on, regardless of, set an example to, at first sight, have---in common, fight for, treat---as, believe in, ask for, so long
1. You can _______________him; he’ll never let you down. 2. Law-breakers are______________________. 3. The school _________________three hundred pupils; now there are double that number. 4. Tom met Mary at a party, and it was love___________________. 5. Real friends should ________ everything ________________. 6. They ________________ the situation ________an emergency. 7. He arrived at the office early, to __________________________the others. 8. He told the workers ____________their rights. 9. He would see them through, _________expense. 10. ______________, he showed deep love for the commune.
E. Fill in the blanks with proper words: (10%) In modern times there are still 1）o__________________ that fight against 2）p___________ and for equal rights of people . There are action groups that fight for the rights of black people , women, children, people with AIDS/ HIV and prisoners. What all these groups have in 3）c___________ is that they ask to be treated with 4）r_________ , share the right to work, good housing conditions and 5）e______________, and be treated 6）e__________________ to other people, 7）r_____________ of race, 8）r___________________ or sex. When Samuel Butler wrote two chapters about the rights of animals and the rights of vegetables in a novel in 1872, everybody thought that was 9）r______________. But in the twentieth century organizations were formed to give a voice to groups that don’t have a voice to speak for themselves. The largest is the animals rights movement . As a part of this movement there are now also action groups that 10）s_____________ for the rights of plants, the oceans and the earth. There are already people wondering whether we should fight for the rights of robots and machines.
II. 单项填空: (20%) 1．You can try second time if you fail first time. A．the; the B．a; the C．a; 不填 D．the; 不填 2．She was sleeping on the sofa, the television on. A．with B．for C．over D．through 3．—Are the new rules working? —Yes. books are stolen. A．Few B．More C．Some D．None 4．I tried so hard to get some information about the result of the game out of his mouth, but he remained . A．quiet B．calm C．silent D．unknown 5．—Why haven’t you asked her to come here? —She an important experiment when I found her and she hasn’t finished it. A．did B．was doing C．has done D．had done 6．—How do you usually go to school? —If it is fine, I on foot. A．go B．will go C．have gone D．am going 7． my teacher, after all thirty years in Boston, was an unforgettable moment, one I will always treasure. A．Meet B．To meet C．Meeting D．Being met 8．—Tom failed his exam again. —But what did you ? He had never been working hard. A．think B．expect C．consider D．imagine 9．I
