[填空题]American blacks were _____ equal rights with the whites until the 1970s after many years of hard struggle.

[单项选择]American Blacks experienced a revolution after 1945, a revolution in expectations. Following World War Ⅱ, the steady movement toward first-class citizenship for Black people quickened, with significant actions taking place in courts of law, in voting booths, in restaurants and in the streets of the nation.
A decade of intense civil rights activity was launched in 1954 when the United States Supreme Court declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional. In 1955, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , effectively organized the Blacks of Atlanta, Georgia, in a bus boycott. The boycott lasted two years, and when it was over, Blacks no longer were degraded by being forced to sit or stand in the rear of buses.
In 1960, a group of Black college students decided that they, sis well as white persons, had the right to eat at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit-in sparked an aggressive national movement and, in the next few years, thousands of young men and women -- Black
A. Black college students and whites.
B. First-class citizens.
C. The Blacks of Atlanta.
D. Young men and women in Greensboro.

[单项选择]The American blacks emigrate from the South to the North from 1865 to 1915 in order to _________.
A. rebuild the war-destructed North
B. leave big industrial cities
C. find jobs in the North
D. live in better slums.

[填空题]By 1966 many civil rights workers were calling for "Black Power" instead of ______.

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With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.
The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty. basically, is that Lt is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway.
In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such-as murder. But some are more extreme than others.
For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in th
A. the veto of the bill reestablishing the death penalty is of little importance
B. the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be debated
C. the death penalty is the most controversial issue in the United States today
D. the second type murderers (in Para. 4) should be sentenced to death