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学习必备 欢迎下载 高三英语阅读专题拓展?1 Eleanor?Roosevelt?was?the?wife?of?Americas?thirty-second?president,?Franklin Delano?Roosevelt.?She?helped?her?husband?in?many?ways?during?his?long political?life.?She?also?became?one?of?the?most?influential?people?in?America. She?fought?for?equal?rights?for?all?people?--?workers,?women,?poor?people,?black people.?And?she?sought?peace?among?nations. Eleanor?Roosevelt Anna?Eleanor?Roosevelt?was?born?in?New?York?City?in?eighteen?eighty-four. Eleanors?family?had?great?wealth?and?influence.?But?Eleanor?did?not?have?a happy?childhood.?Her?mother?was?sick?and?nervous.?Her?father?did?not?work.?He drank?too?much?alcohol.?He?was?not?like?his?older?brother,?Theodore?Roosevelt, who?was?later?elected?president.?When?Eleanor?was?eight?years?old,?her?mother died.?Two?years?later,?her?father?died.?Eleanors?grandmother?raised?the Roosevelt?children.?Eleanor?remembered?that?as?a?child,?her?greatest?happiness came?from?helping?others. SHIRLEY?GRIFFITH:?In?the?early?nineteen?hundreds,?many?people?were concerned?about?the?problems?of?poor?people?who?came?to?America?in?search 学习必备 欢迎下载 of?a?better?life.?Eleanor?Roosevelt?could?not?understand?how?people?lived?in such?poor?conditions?while?she?and?others?had?so?much?wealth. After?she?finished?school,?Eleanor?began?teaching?children?to?read?in?one?of?the poorest?areas?of?New?York?City,?called?Hells?Kitchen.?She?investigated factories?where?workers?were?said?to?be?badly?treated.?Shesaw?little?children?of four?and?five?years?old?working?until?they?dropped?to?the?floor.?She?became involved?with?other?women?who?shared?the?same?ideas?about?improvingsocial conditions. Franklin?Roosevelt?began?visiting?Eleanor.?Franklin?belonged?to?another?part?of the?Roosevelt?family.?Franklin?and?Eleanor?were?married?in?nineteen-oh-five.?In the?next?eleven?years,?they?had?six?children. STEVE?EMBER:?Franklin?Roosevelt?began?his?life?in?politics?in?New?York.?He?was elected?to?be?a?state?legislator.?Later,?President?Woodrow?Wilson?appointed h