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only until 6 p. m. Then he has to do his homework. Michael Sessions, 18, beat the former mayor Douglas
Ingles,51, by just two votes and became the new mayor of Hillsdale. He is the youngest mayor of the US. As Sessions was too young to enter the election in the spring of 2005 , he registered to vote on Sept.
22, one day after his 18-year-old birthday. The day after that he started his write-in campaign(战役) ,
which means he should persuade voters to remember his name and write it by hand on the voting ballots(选票).
To help get his name known, Sessions earned $ 700 by selling apples over the summer. He spent the
money on posters and put them on the Hillsdale's lawns.
Sessions' month-long campaign included going door to door, explaining his ideas of the town's future in
the kitchens of his neighbours. "They'd look at me, and say, ‘ How old are you? How much experience
do you have?' And I say,’I'm still in high school' ," he said.
Sessions promised Hillsdale's voters he would renew the local economy. "I was hopeful the whole
time, "he explained. One day he spent so long out on the streets knocking on the doors that he ended up
in a hospital emergency room.
Sessions said that his schoolwork will not get in the way of his job as a mayor. "From 7:50 a. m. to
2:30 p. m. , I'll be a student. From 3 to 6, I'll be the mayor of Hillsdale," he said.
"He did a very brave thing that couldn't have been easy for him to do, "said Jack Vetted, a councilman
in Hillsdale, a city of 8,200 about 75 miles southwest of Detroit. "He does care about his town. He's
been here all his life. "
Sessions will receive $ 3,600 a year during his four-year term, and will work out of his bedroom since
the town does not provide the mayor with an office.
B. Sessions worked so hard that he once tried to persuade people in a hospital.
C. Sessions won the election campaign by a very close outcome(结果).
D. Sessions felt disappointed when asked about his age and exerience.
B. renew the economy
C. sell apples
D. talk to neighbours in their kitchens
B. In America, young people are encouraged to get involved in politics.
C. All teenagers are allowed to enter political elections.
D. American mayors receive a salary of $ 3,600 a year during the 4-year term.
B. How to become a teenage mayor.
C. Hard work is the ticket to success.
D. Never too young to shake the world.
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