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ThurgoodMarshallwasbornin1908inBaltimore,Maryland.HewasAfricanAmerican, and his grandfather was a formerslave.By the time Thurgood was born, it wasagainst the law to own slaves. Thurgood grewup with both black and white neighbors, but inmany states, people weresegregated.
In theSouth,black people were not allowedto eat in many restaurants that served whitepeople. They were not allowed to sit in thesame train cars as white people.
Black children in the South were not allowed to go to school with white children.They couldn't even drink from the same water fountains.
Yet theSupreme Court一the highest courtin the land一had made segregation legal. Itdecided that those restaurants, trains, schools,parks, and hotels were ''separate but equal.〃
瑟古德马歇尔 1908 年出生于马里兰州巴尔的摩。他是非裔美国人，他的祖父曾是奴隶。瑟古德出生时，拥有奴隶是违法的。 瑟古德与黑人和白人邻居一起长大，但在许多州，人们被隔离。
在南方，许多为白人服务的餐馆都不允许黑人就餐。 他们不得与白人坐在同一节车厢内。
南方的黑人孩子不能和白人孩子一起上学，他们甚至不能从同一个饮水机里喝水。
然而，最高法院——这片土地上的最高法庭——已经将种族隔离合法化。 它决定那些餐厅、火车、学校、公园和酒店是“独立但平等的”。
RAZ有严密的分级体系：根据全文词汇数、高频词词汇数与比例、低频词词汇数与比例、句子长度、句子复杂度、句式、插图信息量、思想深度、主题等多个角度，将整个阅读体系分为aa，A-Z共27个级别。
RAZ旨在帮助孩子找到适合孩子水平的级别，通过在同一级别下的大量阅读逐步提高孩子的阅读能力。
RAZ按难度分为27个级别，AA—C这4个级别对应幼儿园阶段; D—J这7个级别对应美国小学一年级;K—P这6个级别对应美国小学二年级;Q—T这4个级别对应美国小学三年级;U—W这3个级别对应美国小学四年级;X—Z对应美国小学五六年级(相当于国内高中毕业)。
P级已经达到初中毕业的水平，词汇量超过600个，语法上涉及国内初中重要的所有语法(各种时态，灵活的副词和形容词，形象的动词词组，定语从句，宾语从句，状语从句等)。
