Reading in English: This is a quiz from 11th grade curriculum in the US.
英語で読解：アメリカの高校2年生の履修内容から、国語の試験の問題です。
1 Now I listened to the broadcast this afternoon with a great deal of interest. I almost forgot what a fight had been made to assure the rights of the working man. I know there was a time when hours were longer and wages lower, but I had forgotten just how long that fight for freedom, to bargain collectively, and to have freedom of assembly, had taken.
2 Sometimes, until some particular thing comes to your notice, you think something has been won for every working man, and then you come across, as I did the other day, a case where someone had taken the law into his own hands and beaten up a labor organizer. I didn't think we did those things any more in this country, but it appears that we do. Therefore, someone must be always on the lookout to see that someone is ready to take up the cudgels(1) to defend those who can't defend themselves. That is the only way we are going to keep this country a law-abiding country, where law is looked upon with respect and where it is not considered necessary for anybody to take the law into his own hands. The minute you allow that, then you have acknowledged that you are no longer able to trust in your courts and in your law-enforcing machinery, and civil liberties are not very well off when anything like that happens; so I think that after listening to the broadcast today, I would like to remind you that behind all those who fight for the Constitution as it was written, for the rights of the weak and for the preservation of civil liberties, we have a long line of courageous people, which is something to be proud of and something to hold on to. Its only value lies, however, in the fact that we profit by example and continue the tradition in the future.
3 We must not let those people in back of us down; we must have courage; we must not succumb to fears of any kind; and we must live up to the things that we believe in and see that justice is done to the people under the Constitution, whether they belong to minority groups or not. This country is a united country in which all people have the same rights as citizens. We are grateful that we can trust in the youth of the nation that they are going on to uphold the real principles of democracy and put them into action in this country. They are going to make us an even more truly democratic nation.
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(1)cudgels: short, heavy clubs.
1. The relationship between succumb and overcome is the same as the relationship between
A. minority and citizens.
B. fight and struggle.
C. bound and free.
D. conquer and destroy.
2. The repetition of the word "fight" is used to support which central theme in Roosevelt's speech?
A. becoming a U.S. citizen
B. protecting civil liberties
C. looking out for foreign countries
D. ensuring the division between church and state
3. Roosevelt argues that citizens should not take the law into their own hands because
A. doing so leads to mob violence.
B. enforcing the law is the government's job.
C. people should fight with words rather than violence.
D. people have to defend themselves rather than depend on others.
4. In the middle of paragraph 2, Roosevelt implies that "you have acknowledged that you are no longer able to trust in your courts and in your law-enforcing machinery" when you allow individuals
A. to speak and assemble freely.
B. to organize as labor unions.
C. to take the law into their own hands.
D. to think that justice will always prevail.
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