河北省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练:完形填空(33)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Nineyearold Barack Obama was looking through a magazine. But the AfricanAmerican 1 was shocked by a series of photos. The pictures were about a black man who 2 his skin with chemicals (化学制品)that promised to 3 him white.
For the first time,the boy began to doubt who he was. “I stood 4 the mirror and wondered if something was wrong with me,”Obama said.
However,now the boy who used to struggle with his identity (身份)doesn't see it as a problem any more,but an advantage for his 5 career. Obama made history by being elected as the first 6 president of the United States. He 7 John McCain in a landslide (压倒性的)victory.
Obama's 8 starts in opposite corners of the world. His white mother was born in the heartland of the US. His black father 9 in a small village in Kenya. They met during college in Hawaii, 10 his father left the family when Obama was just two years old and his mother moved to Indonesia.
11 10,Obama moved back to live with his white grandparents in Hawaii. At his class,a white boy asked Obama 12 his father ate people. Out of embarrassment(尴尬),Obama 13 his classmates that his father was a prince. “I kept 14 who I am and I ended up trying drugs and drinking,”Obama recalled (回忆).
Things came to change 15 the young man made friends with those with a similar background at college. 16 experiences helped Obama to finally face up to his 17 origin (血统).He worked hard to become a 18 at Harvard Law School.
Obama 19 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.”
“Obama's success has made Martin Luther King's dream come true. That is:A man should not be judged by the 20 of his skin,but by the content(内涵)of his character (性格),”wrote ABC News.
1. A. boy
B. girl
C. man
D. woman
2. A .killed
B. destroyed
C. damaged
D. replaced
3. A. take
B. get
C. make
D. bring
4. A. in the front of
B. behind
C. beside
D. n front of
5. A. painful
B. horrible
C. failed
D. successful
6. A. black
B. white
C. yellow
D. brown
7. A. won
B. beat
C. hurt
D. caught
8. A. belief
B. event
C. story
D. achievement
9. A. grew up
B. grew on
C. grew apart
D. grew from
10. A. and
B. but
C. or
D. so
11. A. On
B. From
C. In
D. At
12. A. if
B. when
C. who
D. that
13. A. came to
B. laughed to
C. spoke to
D. lied to
14. A. telling
B. asking
C. remembering
D. hoping
15. A. whether
B. once
C. after
D. before
16. A. Them
B. They
C. His
D. Their
17. A. African
B. European
C. American
D. Asian
18. A. worker
B. star
C. lawyer
D. president
19. A. adopted
B. admitted
C. urned
D. stood
20.A. sense
B. paint
C.beauty
D.color
1-5 ABCDD
6-10 ABCAB
11-15 DADBC
16-20 DABCD