Listening exercise

Woman: _________ to attend courses at ______ High school.

Mary: Good morning your honor.

Judge: ______ High School is a white school Ms. Jackson

Mary: Yes your honor, I’m ______ of that.

Judge: Virginia, still a _______ state, _______ of what the _________ government or the Supreme
________ says, our law is the law.

Mary: Your honor, if I ______. I believe there are special _________ to be __________.

The judge: What would ________ a color woman ______ a white school?

Mary: May I _______ the bench sir? ... Your honor, you of all people _____ understand the
importance of being _____

Judge: How´s that Ms. Jackson?

Mary: You were the first in your family to _______ in the armed forces, U.S Navy. The first to
attend university, Geroge ________. And you are the first State Judge to be __________ by 3
______ governors.

The judge: You´ve _____ some research.

Mary: Yes, sir.

Jugde: What’s the point here?

Mary: No ______ woman in the state of Virginia has ever _______ an all-white school, it’s _______
of.

Judge: Yes, it’s _______ of

Mary: And before Alan Shepard sat on top of a _______, no American had ever _____ space. And
now, he will be ________ as the Navy man from New Hampshire who was the first to touch the
_________.

Mary: And I sir, I plan to be an _________ at NASA, but I can’t do that _______ taking those classes
at the _________ high school. And I can´t change the color of my skin. So, I have no ______ but to
be the first, ______ I can´t do _____ you.

Mary: Your honor, of all the _________ you’ll ___ ______, which one will _____ in 100 years?
Which one will make you the first?

Judge: Only the night classes