100篇短文突破高考英语词汇word文档及朗读MP3（8185篇）.doc

第81篇 The fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the year long Montgomery(蒙哥马利)Bus Boycott will be celebrated this December. According to the official version of the Boycott it was started by Rosa Parks on the evening of December l,1955,when she refused to give up her seat to a white man That was the day when the Black population of Montgomery, Alabama, democratically decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being forced to sit in the back when a white boarded. It was not, however, the day that the movement started Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1943 when a black dressmaker named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus drive off as she tried to reenter through the rear（后面的）door, as the driver had told her to do. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1949 when a black professor Jo Ann Robinson sat at the front of a nearly empty bus, then ran off in tears when the bus driver screamed at her for doing so. Perhaps the movement started on the day in the early 1950s when a black pastor（牧师) named Vernon Johns tried to get other blacks to leave a bus in protest after he was forced to give up his seat to a white man, only to have them tell him, “You ought to know better. ” 今年12月将要庆祝持续一年之久的蒙哥马利抵制(boycott)公交事件50周年。根据官方版本(version)，抵制是由罗莎·帕克斯于1955年12月1日发起的，当时她拒绝给一位白人让座。 那天也是阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的黑人民主决定抵制城市公交直到他们能坐在任何想坐的地方，而不是在有白人上车(board)时被强迫坐在后面。然而，那不是运动开始的日子。或许(perhaps)运动开始于1943年，当一个名为罗莎·帕克斯的黑人裁缝(dressmaker)付了公交车费(bus fare)．然而当其按司机的吩咐准备从后门再次上车时，公交却开走了。或许这个运动开始于1949年一个名叫乔·罗宾逊的黑人教授坐车的某一天。当时她坐在一辆空空的公交车的前部，公交司机为此对其大叫(scream)．她忍不住流下眼泪。或许这个运动始于20世纪50年代的某_二天。当时一个名为费侬·约翰斯的黑人牧师让其他黑人离开公交以抗议他被迫将位置让给一个白人，结果其他黑人却对他说“你应当识趣一点(You ought to know better)。 第82篇 In 1967 when talking about Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King said: 揟here is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid, or day laborer.