A. Reading comprehension
Read the article about Rosa Parks on pages 8-9 of
English Now
No 82. Then decide if the statements below are true (correct) or false (incorrect). If a statement is false, think about why it is false.
1. Rosa Parks lived with her parents on a farm near Montgomery.
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false
2. She walked to school because there were no school buses for black schoolchildren.
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false
3. She finished high school when she was a teenager.
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false
4. She married a member of the NAACP and later became a member too.
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false
5. She refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger because she was tired from working all day.
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false
6. About 40,000 people took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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false
7. Parks said that Martin Luther King was her personal hero.
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false
8. Parks and her husband moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1957.
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false
9. Parks was the first black person to have a funeral at the Capitol Rotunda.
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10. The year 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of Parks’s death and the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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