任务型读写10篇.docVIP

2009.07为管义海编任务型读写10篇，每篇80元。 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 1 On November 4th, 2008, Obama made history by being elected as the first black president of the United States. He defeated John McCain in a landslide victory. Obama’s story starts in opposite corners of the world. His white mother was born in the heartland of the US. His black father grew up in a tiny village in Kenya. They met during college in Hawaii, but his father left the family when Obama was just two years old and his mother moved to Indonesia. At 10, Obama moved back to live with his white grandparents in Hawaii. At his class, a white boy asked Obama if his father ate people. Out of embarrassment, Obama lied to hi classmates that his father was a prince. “I kept asking who I am and I ended up trying drugs and drinking,” Obama recalled. Things came to change after the young man made friends with those with a similar background at college. Their experiences back in Africa helped Obama to finally face up to his African origin. He worked hard to become a star at Harvard Law School and the third black senator in US history. At the beginning of his campaign for the White House, few people viewed Obama favorably. Many doubted his unusual background, which left him neither “black” enough nor white enough. But Obama turned his pain of growing up into a tool to make Americans believe: “There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America. There’s the United States of America.” “Barack Obama’s victory is a historic victory that promised change and overcame centuries of prejudice. His success fulfilled Martin Luther King’s dream that a man be judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character,” wrote ABC. News. Title Road to ___1____ Obama’s __2____ His mother was ___3__ and born in the heartland of America, while his father came from a ____4__ area of Africa. Obama’s ___5____ His father left the family when he was two years old. At 10, h