SAT阅读题型介绍与例题讲解_SAT阅读

SAT阅读题型介绍与例题讲解

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　　Martin Luther King was at his best when he was willing to reshape the wisdom of many of his intellectual predecessors. He ingeniously harnessed their ideas to his views to advocate sweeping social change. He believed that his early views on race failed to challenge America fundamentally. He later confessed that he had underestimated how deeply entrenched racism was in America. If Black Americans could not depend on goodwill to create social change, they had to provoke social change through bigger efforts at nonviolent direct action. This meant that Blacks and their allies had to obtain political power. They also had to try to restructure American society, solving the riddles of poverty and economic inequality. This is not the image of King that is celebrated on Martin Luther King Day. Many of Kings admirers are uncomfortable with a focus on his mature beliefs. They seek to deflect unfair attacks on Kings legacy by shrouding him in the cloth of superhuman heroism. In truth, this shroud is little more than romantic tissue. Kings image has often suffered a sad fate. His strengths have been needlessly exaggerated, his weaknesses wildly overplayed. Kings true legacy has been lost to cultural amnesia. As a nation, we have emphasized Kings aspiration to save America through inspiring words and sacrificial deeds. Time and again we replay the powerful image of King standing on a national stage in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial mouthing perhaps the most famous four words ever uttered by a Black American: I have a dream。 For most Americans, those words capture Kings unique genius. They express his immortal longing for freedom, a longing that is familiar to every person who dares imagine a future beyond unjust laws and unfair customs. The edifying universality of those four wordswho has not dreamed, and who cannot identify with people whose dreams of a better world are punished with violence?helps to explain their durability. But those words survive, too, because they comfort folk who would rather entertain the dreams of unfree people than confront their rage and despair。