This vocabulary review is from this posting and the article linked in the posting:
http://convostartersenglish.blogspot.com/2013/05/japanese-government-officials-will.html
Words to be used:
to pledge, a memorial, an outcry,
a protest, to elaborate, an atrocity,
a landmark decision, to be convicted, a symbol
Exercise:
1) Brown vs. The Board of Education was a ____________________ by the US Supreme Court, which made it illegal for a public school system to prevent African American students from attending schools with white students.
2) When Coca Cola tried to change the formula of its drink a few years ago, there was an ______________ and many people pledged that they would not drink the new version.
3) The American Eagle is the official ____________ of the United States of America. It holds arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other. What does this mean? Basically it means that the US wishes to have peace with other countries, but will fight if necessary.
4) Recently many organizations around the USA raised a lot of money so that a ______________ could be built to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights activist.
5) Although Richard Nixon did many things that were morally wrong as president of the United States, he was never actually ______________ of a crime.
6) Hiroshima was a Japanese city which did not have any military purpose. When the USA dropped an atomic bomb on that city, many innocent people died. Yet, this has never been classified as an ________________ in history books, since the US government claimed it was necessary to drop the bomb to end the war quickly.
7) When I went off to college, my parents _____________ that they would support me as well as they could financially, even though they were relatively poor.
8) I didn't quite understand the plan fully. It seemed to vague. That's the reason why I asked him to ___________________.
9) Many historians believe that the Vietnam War might have lasted longer if so many young Americans had not ______________ the war as being morally wrong.
Answers are below:
Farther down:
Answers:
1) landmark decision
2) outcry
3) symbol
4) memorial
5) convicted
6) atrocity
7) pledged
8) elaborate
9) protested
