問題詳情

[C] Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow westand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This __41__ decree cameas a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been searedin the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end thelong night of their __42__.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred yearslater, the life of the Negro is still sadly __43__ by the manacles of segregationand the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on alonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material __44__. Onehundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of Americansociety and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here to__45__ a shameful condition.In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When thearchitects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution andthe Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note (期票)__46__ every American was to fall heir (繼承人). This note was a promise thatall men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be __47__ the unalienable5Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is obvious today thatAmerica has defaulted (拖欠) on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens ofcolor are concerned. __48__ honoring (實現) this sacred obligation, Americahas given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked“insufficient funds.”But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is __49__. We refuse tobelieve that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults (金庫) of opportunityof this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give uson __50__ the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
41.
(A) momentary
(B) memorial
(C) momentous
(D) menacing

參考答案

答案:B[無官方正解]
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(1),B(2),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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