Question

Directions: Complete the following passage by using ihe words in the box. Each word can only be used once.   Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. honoured      B. set            C. historic     D. secretly      E. citizen F. granted             G. route      H. briefly      I. restoration    J. leading

 

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a  1.voce in the yean before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) _2._ Douglass's birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a _3.site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year _4.. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black _5.to bold a government office — as US minister and consul general (总领事) to Haiti.

As a youth, be never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so be _6.taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system _7.up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the _8., housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass witnessed the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which _9.African-Americans the right to vote.

Answer

1.J. 根据第一段的意思“Frederick Douglass是美国在结束奴隶制度的战斗中逃跑出去的一个奴隶，他在美国内战以前的岁月里是起到了先声作用的人物”，所以，要选择leading。

2.A. honour此处是“带来荣誉，为纪念…”的意思。

3.C. 根据上下文意思，Frederick Douglass在Cedar Hill的家当然就成了“historic:有历史意义的”site，所以选择historic。

4.I．根据前后文意思，知道“这盛有Frederick Douglass个人财产的两层楼的房子，经过了三年的重新修缮后才向世人开放”，所以，选择I。

5.E. 根据上下文意思，Frederick Douglass成为第一个拥有政府办公室的黑人“市民”，所以选择citizen。

6.D．当Frederick Douglass年轻的时候，他从来没有能够去学校接受教育，因为当时在美国南部黑人受教育是不合法的，所以，他只能“秘密地自学”，故选择secretly。

7.B．set up为固定短语，意思是“建立、建造、设立”。

8.G．根据前后文的语境，此处应填route, on the route是“在这一路线上，它成了最重要的站点”。

9.F．grant right是“授权”的意思。