Vocabulary

Complete the sentences with one of the following words: assassin, clergyman, equality, marches, protest, violence.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Chris­tian preacher. He was a ________ .

2. A person who kills a politician or leader like King is an ________ .

3. King told black people to complain about their situation. He told them to ________ .

4. He also told large numbers of black people to walk from one place to another to show that they were not happy. He told them to go on ________ .

5. King believed in peace. -He did not believe in ________ .

6. King wanted everybody to have the same rights. He wanted ________ for everybody.

Comprehension

A. Looking for Main Ideas

Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. In King's time, the South had ________ .

1. segregation

2. white buses

3. children's restaurants

2. Civil rights is _________ .

1. equality for everybody

2. to be white

3. equality for women only

3. January 15 is ________ .

1. the day King died

2. the day King got the Nobel Prize

3. a national holiday

B. Looking for Details

Circle Т if the sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false.

1. King did not want to stop segregation. T F

2. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in peace. T F

3. In 1968, King got the Nobel Peace Prize. T F

4. King died when he was thirty-nine years old. T F

5. His famous speech begins, "I had a dream." T F

6. In 1963, he was the leader of a civil rights march. T F

Henry ford

Henry Ford was born in 1863 in the state of Michigan. He grew up on a farm but he did not want to become a farmer. He left school when he was sixteen. He wanted to make cars so he went to work as a mechanic. In 1896 Ford built his first car. This car was very different from the cars of today. For example, its wheels were bicycle wheels. In 1902 Ford built a car that won an important race. This car was the fast­est car that had ever been built. It went seventy miles per hour. By then Ford had had enough money to start the Ford Motor Company. At this time cars cost a lot of money. Only very rich people bought cars. Ford had a dream. He wanted to build a car that many people could afford. Ford was sure that, if people could afford cars, they would buy them. He said, "everybody wants to be some­where he isn't." Ford's plan was to make all his cars the same. Cars that are all the same take less time and less money to make. Then Ford could charge less money for these cars. In 1908 Ford produced his famous Model T Ford. The Model T sold for $850. This was much cheaper than other cars but still more than most people could pay. One day Ford visited a meat-packing factory. There he saw beef carcasses being moved from one worker to another. Each worker had a particular job to do when the beef carcasses reached him. Ford realized that he could use this as­sembly line method to build cars. It took less than two hours to build a car on the assembly line. Before, it took fourteen hours. Ford was able to drop the price of the Model T to $265. Ford's dream had come true. The Model T was now a car that many people could afford. By 1927, when Ford stopped making the Model T, over 15 million of these cars had been sold.