We have yet to urge into speed reading itself, but by now, your comprehension should have improved dramatically, and with the skill of prereading, you ought to be ready to learn a touch bit faster. Let’s check your progress with this quick speed and comprehension test. If you don’t see a big improvement in your gear, don’t worry: that’s coming up during this chapter. you ought to, however, see a marked difference in your retention score.
Instructions:
Read the text on the subsequent page at the fastest speed you'll, while attempting to recollect and store a minimum of 80% of the pertinent details. It’s not necessary to print this document; reading on the screen is gorgeous. If you favor to print it out and skim on paper, please confirm to use 8.5x14” legal format paper.
Use a timer, starting and stopping at the indicated points to live your speed.
A guide the subsequent page will assist you to convert your speed to the standardized Words Per Minute (“WPM”) metric we use throughout the course.
Once you’ve completed reading the choice, you'll be asking a series of questions that test your understanding and retention of the fabric.
Mark your speed and retention scores on the Progress & Goals Worksheet which you’ve printed out and posted during a visible area.
--START YOUR TIMER--
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I’m only getting to ask you only for a moment approximately tonight because I even have some – some unfortunate news for all of you – Could you lower those signs, please? – I even have some unfortunate news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and other people who love peace everywhere the world; which is that Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to like and justice between fellow citizenry. He died within the explanation for that effort. during this stressful day, during this challenging time for the us , it’s perhaps well to ask what quite a nation we are and what direction we would like to maneuver in.
For those of you who are black – considering the evidence is that there has been White race who were responsible – you'll fill bitterly, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in this direction as a rustic, in greater polarization – black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, crammed with hatred toward each other. Or we will make an attempt, as Luther King did, to know, and to grasp, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an attempt to know, compassion, and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempts to fill with – crammed with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all White race, i might only say that I also can feel in my very own heart an equivalent quite feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but a man shot him.
But we've to form an attempt within the us . we've to form an attempt to know, to urge beyond, or transcend these rather difficult times.
My favorite poem, my – my favorite poet, was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop in drop upon the guts, until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
What we'd like within the us isn't division.
What we'd like within the us isn't hatred.
What we'd like within the us isn't violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward each other, and a sense of justice toward those that still suffer within our country, whether or not they be white or whether or not they be black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to mention a prayer for the family of Luther King – yeah, it’s true – but more importantly to mention a prayer for our own country, which all folks love – a prayer for understanding which compassion of which I spoke.
We can have the best during this country. we'll have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times within the past, but we – and that we will have difficult times within the future. it's not the top of violence; it's not the top of lawlessness, and it’s not the top of the disorder.
But the overwhelming majority of the White race and therefore the overwhelming majority of black people during this country want to measure together, want to enhance the standard of our life, and need justice for all citizenry that abides in our land.
And let’s dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote numerous years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. allow us to commit ourselves thereto, and say a prayer for our country and our people.
Thank you considerably.
COMPREHENSION QUIZ
1. Luther King was shot and killed in
a. Memphis, Tennessee
b. Nashville, Tennessee
c. Jacksonville, Florida
d. Birmingham, Alabama
2. The speaker gives his audience a choice between moving forward with greater
polarization or making an attempt to exchange violence with understanding and love.
a. True
b. False
3. The speaker mentions that a member of his circle of relatives was also killed.
a. True
b. False
4. The speaker shares his favorite poem, a piece by the poet...
a. Homer
b. Aeschylus
c. Socrates
d. Frost
5. The speaker lists various things that US doesn't need. Which of
these does he not mention?
a. Division
b. Hatred
c. Violence
d. Segregation
e. Lawlessness
6. Which of the subsequent does the speaker urge the audience to wish for?
a. The family of Luther King
b. Their own country
c. Understanding
d. Compassion
e. All of the above
7. The speaker remembered to thank his audience at the top of his speech.
a. True
b. False
QUIZ ANSWERS
1. (A) Memphis, Tennessee
2. (A) True
3. (A) True
4. (B) Aeschylus
5. (D) Segregation
6. (E) All of the above
7. (A) True
