Question

America’s First Black President

    Ten-year-old Barack Obama was one of the only three black students at his school in Hawaii．the US．He is different from most of the other students．White girls wanted to touch his hair．A white boy asked him whether his father was people．

    ”I lied to them that my father was a Kenyan prince（王子）．But I kept asking myself who I was，”said Obama．

37 years later，to everyone’s surprise，the boy became well-known．On November 4th，2008，Obama became the first black president in US history．

    Obama was born to an African father and a white American woman from a small town in the US in 1961．He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii．This unusual background（背景） made him wonder who he was．He even wanted to forget this question．

    With the help of his friends．Obama finally turned his life around in the university．After leaving from Columbia University in l983，he had a great idea——working hard to bring change to the world．So he moved from New York to Chicago in 1985 and worked in a poor African—American area for three years．After that，he studied laws in Harvard University and graduated in l991．Later．he became the third black senator（參議員）in US history．

During his race to the highest post in the US，Obama talked about his background．He called for a United States of America，rather than a white America or a black America.

（4）奧巴馬的成功使馬丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King）的夢想變成了現(xiàn)實．That is：（5）A man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character．”He said at the speech in Chicago after he was elected．

根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容完成下列任務(wù)。

◇根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容補(bǔ)全下列句子。

1．When Obama was ten years old，the other students at his school were _______ to him．

2．Obama’s father wasn’t a Kenyan prince，was he? ________．

3．From the story we know that Columbia University is in the city of _______．

◇將文中畫線部分譯成英語。

4．_______________________________________________________________

◇用“people”作主語改寫文中畫線句子，保持句意不變。

5．________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

1．unfriendly／not friendly／not kind／not polite／rude... （答案不唯一，意思符合即可）

2．No，he wasn’t

3．New York

4．Obama’s success bas（already）made Martin Luther King’s dream come true．

5．People should not judge a man by the color of his skin，but by the content of his character．