马丁·路德·金 / Martin Luther King
马丁·路德·金（1929—1968），美国著名的黑人民权运动领袖，被誉为近百年来八大最具有说服力的演说家之一。他出身于亚特兰大黑人牧师家庭，15岁时进入大学，先后获得文学士、神学士及博士学位。金一生曾三次被捕，三次被行刺。1964年获诺贝尔和平奖。1968年4月4日，金在田纳西州孟菲斯被一白人青年雷伊枪杀身亡，年仅39岁。
Pracficing for Befler Learning
Listen to the following article twice, and fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
1.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize an ___________________.
2.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which _____________________.In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not ________________________.Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.