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　　In the spring of 1963 King was in Birmingham, Alabama, leading a struggle for jobs for  1 and for African - Americans to be  2 at“  3 Only”restaurants. When the police turned vicious (['viM+s]adj. 凶猛的) dogs and fire hoses (水龙带) on the  4 , they were  5 on TV screens all over the country.  6 was outrage ['autreid{]n. (愤怒). It 7 when the police arrested king  8 many children shown being beaten as they were dragged off to prison.

　　In the  9 , King wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail. He  10 out that there was a  11 to obey just laws,  12 there was also a duty not to obey unjust laws. He quoted ([kw+ut]vt. 引用) the Roman Catholic Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law  13 ”He added that peaceful protest ([pr+'test]n. 抗议) was needed because “we know through painful  14 that freedom is never voluntarily given…it must be  15 …”

　　The letter from Birmingham Jail drew wide  16 .Civil rights leaders agreed that there should be a protest  17 on Washington, D. C. to demand a federal law that would  18 the role of blacks as second class  19 .They named Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. the main speaker  20 the rally (['r$li]n. 集会) to follow. And so it was that 250, 000 people  21 under the hot August sun in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,  22 to hear him.

　　“I have a  23 ,”the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had said on the greatest of days in  24 in 1963. Dr King was dead, but his dream will  25 be.

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　　In the spring of 1963 King was in Birmingham, Alabama, leading a struggle for jobs for  1 and for African - Americans to be  2 at“  3 Only”restaurants. When the police turned vicious (['viM+s]adj. 凶猛的) dogs and fire hoses (水龙带) on the  4 , they were  5 on TV screens all over the country.  6 was outrage ['autreid{]n. (愤怒). It 7 when the police arrested king  8 many children shown being beaten as they were dragged off to prison.

　　In the  9 , King wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail. He  10 out that there was a  11 to obey just laws,  12 there was also a duty not to obey unjust laws. He quoted ([kw+ut]vt. 引用) the Roman Catholic Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law  13 ”He added that peaceful protest ([pr+'test]n. 抗议) was needed because “we know through painful  14 that freedom is never voluntarily given…it must be  15 …”

　　The letter from Birmingham Jail drew wide  16 .Civil rights leaders agreed that there should be a protest  17 on Washington, D. C. to demand a federal law that would  18 the role of blacks as second class  19 .They named Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. the main speaker  20 the rally (['r$li]n. 集会) to follow. And so it was that 250, 000 people  21 under the hot August sun in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,  22 to hear him.

　　“I have a  23 ,”the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had said on the greatest of days in  24 in 1963. Dr King was dead, but his dream will  25 be.

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When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices （装置） tell the time ― which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.  

But while the wise have realized that they don’t need them, others ― apparently including some distinguished men of our time ― are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to ￡250,000 for a piece.  

This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions ― but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?  

If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.  

Watches are now classified as “investments” （投资）. A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up ― they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.  

 

59. The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they      .  

A. have other devices to tell the time                      B. think watches too expensive  

C. prefer to wear an iPod                                      D. have no sense of time  

 

60. It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______.  

A. people dive 300 metres into the sea  

B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones  

C. cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive ones  

D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell  

 

61. What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage?  

A. It targets rich people as its potential customers.  

B. It’s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.  

C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.  

D. It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.  

 

62. Which would be the best title for the passage?  

A. Timex or Rolex?                                      B. My Childhood Timex  

C. Watches? Not for Me!                              D. Watches ― a Valuable Collection  

 

 

I can’t go to the park with you because I have a meeting to        .

A. take part         B. join         C. attend             D. join in

 

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech.At some point in every speech,every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned.Fortunately,such moments are usually not obvious(明显的) to the listeners.Why?Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say.They hear only what the speaker does say.If you lose your place for a moment,wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences,or forget to pause at a certain point,no one will be any the wiser.When such moments occur,don’t worry about them.Just continue as if nothing happened.

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech,that doesn’t really matter.If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a Dream”,you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech.Most likely,however,you don’t remember.Why?Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.

People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流).They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.But,in fact,the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance.They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly.Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.

As you work on your speech,don’t worry about being perfect.Once you free your mind of this,you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

1.The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will _______.

A．be smarter than you	B．notice your mistakes
C．do better than you	D．know what you are talking about

2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because _______.

A．your attention is on the content

B．you don’t fully understand the speech

C．you don’t know what the speaker plans to say

D．you find the way of speech-making more important

3.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A．giving a speech is like giving a performance

B．one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

C．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

D．the more mistakes a speaker makes,the more attractive he will be

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Be a Perfect Speaker

B．How to Make a Perfect Speech

C．Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech

D．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech