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 his classmates that his father was a prince. “I kept asking who am I and I ended up trying drugs and drinking,” Obama recalled.

　 Things came to change after the young men 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(參議員) 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’s not a black America and a white America, a Latino American, an Asian America. There’s the United States of America.”

　 Barack Obama’s victory is “ a historic victory that promised change and overcame centuries prejudice（偏見). His success accomplished 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.

1. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to _______.

　 A who he was

　 B Obama’s successful career

　 C making him white

　 D defeating John McCain

2. We can learn from the passage that ________.

　 A Obama’s parents come from the same country

　 B the black man who destroyed his skin was Obama himself

　 C Obama was once troubled by his identity

　 D Africa is where Obama was born

3. Which of the following is the correct order?

　 a. being elected the first black president of the US

　 b. returning to live with his grandparents

　 c. becoming the third black senator in US history

　 d. going to college

　 e. going to Africa for his origin

　 f. joining in the campaign for the White House

　 A. b-e-d-c-f-a　 　 B. f-a-b-e-d-c　 C. a-b-e-f-c-d　 D. c-f-d-b-e-a

4. The best title of the passage would be _____.

　 A The first president of the US

　 B Martin Luther King’s dream

　 C A historic victory

　 D. The history of African Americans