D. Obama became the president at the age of 37.

59. We can infer from the passage that ______________ .

   A. Martin Luther King fought for his dream and he succeeded.

   B. Obama has the same dream as Martin Luther King.

   C. Obama was once bothered（困扰）by the question where he was born.

58. Where can we find this passage ?

   A. In a newspaper.       B. In a novel.      C. In a history book.      D. In a poster.

TEN-YEAR-OLD Barack Obama was one of the only three black students at his school in Hawaii , US. He felt very different from most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy asked him whether his father ate people.
   “I lied (说谎) to them that my father was a Kenyan prince (王子). But I kept asking myself who I am,” said Obama.
   However, 37 years later, the boy made history. Last Wednesday Obama became the first black president in US history.
   Obama was born in 1961, to an African father and a white American woman from a small town in the US. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii. This unusual background made him wonder who he was. He once turned to wines to help forget this question.
   With the help of his friends, Obama finally turned his life around at college. His hard work made him a star at Harvard . Later, he became only the third black senator (参议员) in US history. During his race to the highest post in the US, Obama talked about his background. He called for a United States of America, rather than a white America or a black America.
  “Obama’s success has made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. That is: A man should not be judged (判断) by the color of his skin (皮肤), but by the content of his character,” wrote ABC news.

57. Which of the following is the best to fill in the blank in the last paragraph?

   A. clever             B. lazy            C. small            D. unusual

C

56. Nobody else painted as Jimmy did. How did other people paint ?

   A. they never used brushes.               B. They painted interesting pictures.

   C. They painted on all of the paper.         D. They always left one half of the paper empty.

55. Why did people spend so much money on Jimmy’s pictures? Because___________.

   A. Jimmy painted them very well.          B. they wanted to get more money later on.

C. his pictures looked different from others’.  D. they liked the pictures very much.

54. Jimmy did well in _____________ .

   A. drawing          B. selling pictures      C. taking pictures       D. making money

53. If you dial “0”, ________ will answer your call.

A. the operator      B. the doctor       C. the police        D. the fire department

B

Jimmy started painting when he was three years old, and when he was five , he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them. They said, “This boy’s going to be famous when he’s a little older, and then we’re going to sell these pictures for a lot more money.”

  Jimmy’s pictures were different from other people’s because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.

  “That’s very clever,” everyone said. “Nobody else does that!”

  One day somebody bought one of Jimmy’s pictures and then said to him, “Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half of your pictures, but not on the top half ?”

  “Because I’m _______,” Jimmy said, “ and my brushes can’t reach very high.”

52. If you see a boat sinking, you should dial _________.

A. 645-1212        B. 023-1500       C. 876-5800        D. 223-6978