21世纪 大学英语 读写教程第一册B1_U07_A 教师课件 内含 习题答案 要点提示.pptVIP

Have you ever been in a situation where you were considered “different” from everyone else? What happened? How did you feel? Segregation in the United States A system of racial segregation（种族隔离制度）arose soon after the American Civil War in most former slave states. In 1948, President Truman（杜鲁门总统）ordered to put an end to segregation in the armed forces and segregation of the races in public schools was banned in 1954. Southern antagonism toward desegregation continued into the 1960s, however. Most white schools remained totally segregated by the mid-1960s. In the 1970s, the federal government began to withhold federal funds from segregated schools and the Supreme Court expanded the fight when it ruled in 1976 that private, nonsectarian schools may not exclude black children because of their race. School desegregation, however, has still not seemed accomplished in much of the U.S. ice breaker — (originally) a boat that cuts through the ice e.g. The kid’s joke was an ice breaker and the couple began to talk to each other. Cf: break the ice e.g. The kid suddenly made a face in order to break the ice among the adults. Paraphrase: So that’s how I became just another kid in school … My classmates began to talk to me and treated me as any other kids at the school … Text-related information Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, known popularly as F.D.R., was elected to four consecutive terms as president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1945. He is credited with leading the country out of the Great Depression through an ambitious plan of government spending known as the New Deal (新政). Roosevelt also led the U.S. through most of World War II, though he died before the war ended. He is considered by many to be the greatest president of the 20th century and his likeness is immortalized on Mt. Rushmore along with those of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Thomas Jefferson served as third Presi