Question

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words（在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順。每空格限填一詞，首字母已給）

Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little e1.. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln even did j2. of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer in his early years.

A large number of US presidents experienced in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they g3. from the same school — West Point Military Academy. One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was o4. fined because he broke the rules of the school.

The jobs of US presidents are t5.. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and a6.. Every day, a lot of work is there for him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was b7. to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, “When you grow up, you should not be president. It’s a boring job.”

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