高英AMorePerfectUnion练习.doc

I. Choose the one which can fully express the meaning of the words given below:

1. Farmers and scholars, statesmen and patriots who had traveled across the ocean to escape tyranny and persecution…
A. dictation B. president C. dictatorship D. presidency

2. …the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution…
A. lie B. implant C. find D. ensure

3. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue…
A. race B. color C. language D. culture

4. …we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.
A. weapon B. force C. alliance D. power

5. …that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.
A. happiness B. coordination C. decency D. misery

6. …use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation…
A. watch B. expect C. defame D. portray

7. …racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems…
A. significant B. outstanding C. stony D. phenomenal

8. …a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change…
A. clinic B. lasting C. slow D. progress

9. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms…
A. disparaging B. positive C. lazy D. feminine

10. …and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
A. step B. lean C. roar D. recoil