Question

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

A. honored      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 years 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

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