研究生英语阅读教程(提高级-第三版)-教学课件Lesson 7

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策 划：鞠方安

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顾 问：李光立主 编：刘兰芝 董敬一

副主编：Gerald Zimmerman 杨真真 任林静

制作人：段艳丽2

Lesson Seven

A Christmas Sermon On Peace

Language Points Background Information Warm-up Questions Main Idea Language Points Difficult Sentences

Keys to the Exercises

Background InformationMartin Luther King, Jr. ,U.S. civil rights leader. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. King was the son of a Baptist minister. He became an adherent of nonviolence philosophies while in college. In 1963, King helped organize the March on Washington, an assembly of more than 200,000 protestors at which he made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

Background InformationThe march influenced the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and King was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. King joined the growing number of antiwar activists in 1965 and began to criticize publicly American foreign policy in Vietnam. King’s outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (1959—1975) also angered President6

Background InformationJohnson. Some of King’s white supporters agreed with his criticisms of United States involvement in Vietnam so strongly that they shifted their activism from civil rights to the antiwar movement .

In 1968 King went to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by sanitation workers; there on April 4, he was assassinated by J. E. Ray.

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of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and King was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by sanitation workers; there on April 4, he was assassinated.

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Background InformationAlexander the Great: Also Alexander III (365—323BC), greatest military leader of antiquity. His empire, the greatest that had existed to that time, extended from Thrace to Egypt and from Greece to the Indus Valley.

Background InformationCaesar, Julius (100?—44BC) Celebrated Roman general, statesman, and dictator. He was in the midst of launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated in the Senate House.

Warm-up Questions1. Listen to the speech “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. What impressed you most?

Warm-up Questions2. In his speech, President Obama said that the USA now “is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day”. Do you agree with him?

Main IdeaMartin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech on Christmas Eve in 1967, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He had been leading the civil rights struggle for several years. This was only months before his assassination in April of 1968. In powerful direct language for which he was known King put forward profound ideas and directed them to all humanity.

Main IdeaGreat themes you will find in this speech include: 1) It is time for all of mankind to reexami

ne the meaning of nonviolence. 2) Through international trade and commerce the lives of all people are interwoven; at varying levels we are dependent of others and they on us. 3) When addressing international issues the “ends,” the effects our actions have on other people’s lives can not