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　　Nine year old Barack Obama was looking through a magazine．But the AfricanAmerican 　　1　　 was shocked by a series of photos．The pictures were about a black man who 　　2　　 his skin with chemicals(化学制品)that promised to 　　3　　 him white．

　　For the first time, the boy began to doubt who he was．“I stood 　　4　　 the mirror and wondered if something was wrong with me, ”Obama said．

　　However, now the boy who used to struggle with his identity(身份)doesn't see it as a problem any more, but an advantage for his 　　5　　 career．Obama made history by being elected as the first 　　6　　 president of the United States．He 　　7　　 John McCain in a landslide(压倒性的)victory．

　　Obama's 　　8　　 starts in opposite corners of the world．His white mother was born in the heartland of the US．His black father 　　9　　 in a small village in Kenya．They met during college in Hawaii, 　　10　　 his father left the family when Obama was just two years old and his mother moved to Indonesia．

　　　　11　　 10, Obama moved back to live with his white grandparents in Hawaii．At his class, a white boy asked Obama 　　12　　 his father ate people．Out of embarrassment(尴尬), Obama 　　13　　 his classmates that his father was a prince．“I kept 　　14　　 who I am and I ended up trying drugs and drinking, ”Obama recalled(回忆)．

　　Things came to change 　　15　　 the young man made friends with those with a similar background at college．　　16　　 experiences helped Obama to finally face up to his 　　17　　 origin(血统)．He worked hard to become a 　　18　　 at Harvard Law School．

　　Obama 　　19　　 his pain of growing up into a tool to make Americans believe：“There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America．There's the United States of America．”

　　“Obama's success has made Martin Luther King's dream come true．That is：A man should not be judged by the 　　20　　 of his skin, but by the content(内涵)of his character(性格), ”wrote ABC News．

阅读理解

　　Have you read " 'To Kill a Mockingbird’ The only navel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice and respect．It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer．He defends a black man．

　　Tom Robinson wrongfully accused of raping(强奸)a white woman．In the end, an all-white- jury(陪审团)sentences Tom Robinson to death．

　　The book is set in the American, South in the 1930s．

　　But it came out on July11^th, 1960 as the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining strength．

　　Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks and whites mostly separated．

　　A mockingbird is a land of gray songbird．The book gets its, title from something Atticus Finch was told in his childhood when his father gave him a gun．Atticus Finch said, "I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he．told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them．But remember, it was a sin(罪过)to kill a mockingbird, for they don't hurt anyone, they just make music．"

　　Some people said, " 'To Kill a Mockingbird' treats racism in a way that is simplisite(过分单纯化的), even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's, America．" Still, it has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies．It is often required reading in high schools．Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in America in 1961 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007．

　　The story takes place in a town that Harper Lee called Maycomb．But she based the characters on real people she knew growing up．Since then her hometown Monroeville has changed a lot．A number of African-Americans serve m the local government．The courthouse, made famous by the book, is now a museum．A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home．