Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. touches B. stage C. crossed D. outnumbering E. present F. fundraiser
G. account H. available I. wandered J. address K. coverage |
The night before the March on Washington, on 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day’s speech. “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream’, his adviser Wyatt Walker told him. “You’ve used it too many times already.”
King had indeed employed the refrain（repeated sentences）several times before. It had featured in an address just a week earlier at a 【小题1】 in Chicago, and a few months before that at a huge rally in Detroit. As with most of his speeches, both had been well received, but neither had been regarded as momentous.
This speech had to be different. While King was by now a national political figure, relatively few outside the black church and the civil rights movement had heard him give a full 【小题2】. With all three television networks offering live 【小题3】 of the march for jobs and freedom, this would be his oratorical（演说的）introduction to the nation.
After a wide range of conflicting suggestions from his staff, King left the lobby at the Willard hotel in DC to put the final 【小题4】 to a speech that he hoped would be received, in his words, “like the Gettysburg Address”.
A few floors below King’s suite, Walker made himself 【小题5】. King would call down and tell him what he wanted to say; Walker would write something that he hoped worked, and then head up the stairs to 【小题6】 it to King.
King finished the outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. One of his aides who went to King’s suite that night saw words 【小题7】 out three or four times. He thought it looked as though King were writing poetry. King went to sleep at about 4 am, giving the text to his aides to print and distribute. The “I have a dream” section was not in it.
A few hours after King went to sleep, the march’s organizer, Bayard Rustin, 【小题8】 on to the Washington Mall, where the demonstration would take place later that day, with some of his assistants, to find security personnel and journalists 【小题9】 demonstrators. Political marches in Washington are now commonplace, but in 1963 attempting to 【小题10】 a march of this size in that place was unprecedented.
