单项选择题
| The period immediately following the
Civil War was a time of great hope for Blacks in America. It was also a time of
momentous (21) change, as the nation sought to (22)
those liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights to all Americans,
Black and White. The Thirteenth Amendment (23) slavery, the
Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws, and
the Fifteenth Amendment declared that no one could be (24)
the right to vote " (25) race, color, or precious
condition of servitude." In subsequent decades, (26) , it
became all too apparent, at least to Blacks and a (n) (27)
small number of concerned Whites, that the promise contained in these
amendments were not being (28) By century’s end, racial
segregation was still an inescapable fact of American life, in the North
(29) the South. There was an important stage that showed the struggle to close the gap between constitutional promise and social reality. In turning to civil disobedience (非暴力反抗), leaders (30) Martin Luther King, Jr. made (31) possible for all victims of racial injustice to take action in a way that was direct and forceful, (32) also peaceable. And through the power of their mortal example, they soon won widespread support for their cause. (33) these developments, Congress took steps to (34) the full meaning of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The enactment of these measures (35) marked the end of the civil rights movement. There was still much to be done. |
单项选择题 The world's first internet ______ has been cancelled because of lack of interest.
单项选择题 Weld's hopes of assisting homosexual couples to adopt children will require the law to ______ the roles and customs of the child welfare organizations that now administer adoption.
单项选择题 It's important to remember that nutrients have to work ______, and to take too much of one or another can be useless or even dangerous.
单项选择题 The ______ amongst the world's scientists is that the world is likely to warm up over the next few decades.
单项选择题 Given a relatively ______ sentence of 18 years (others were given suspended death sentences), Chen was later released from jail in consideration of age and poor health.