根据所给汉语意思，在空白处填入一个适当的单词，使句意完整与正确。

三年前我父亲以教书为生。

My father ________ ________ ________ by teaching three years ago.

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　　I study at No. 12 Middle School. My home is far from my school. I get up early every morning. I ride my bike to school. I have lunch at school.

　　Sometimes I buy some bread and drinks for my lunch in the shop near our school. My father works in a factory behind my school. He goes to work by bus(乘车). He leaves his factory at 5:00 p.m. and we go home together.

1．What do I do?

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2．I have ________ in my school.

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3．There's not a ________ near my school.

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4．My father ________ by bus.

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5．I go home with ________ every afternoon.

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When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " No! You are going to college. " He took me by surprise when he said, "OK. We'll go to the brick factory. "

Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. ' I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.

When we arrived at the factory gates, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, "Take your time. Look around." I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my. father and said, "I want to go home. "

He asked me, "What do you think of the factory?"

"It's terrible," I replied.

"And marriage is even worse!" he said.

I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!

1. The writer lived in_________ when she was a teenager.

A. Russia B. Japan C. China

2.At first she thought life in the factory would be _        _ than in school.

A. more careful B. more colorful C. more beautiful

3.When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement________.

A. by doing nothing    B. in a special way C. by saying nothing

4. After they visited the factory, the girl________.

A. decided to work there        B. decided to get married        C. changed her mind

5.The underlined word "horrible" means "_     _" in Chinese.

A. 糟糕的    B. 紧张的    C. 浪漫的

In 1961 Obama was born in Hawaii, US. His father is an African and his mother is a white American. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.

When Obama was 10 years old, he was one of only three black students at his school in Hawaii. He felt very different from most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy even asked him what his father was.

“I lied 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. Obama became the first black president（总统） in US history.

This unusual background（背景） made him wonder who he was. He once turned to alcohol (酒) 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.

“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, but by the content of his character,” wrote ABC news.

1.Obama was born in _______________.

A Britain       B America       C Kenya         D Indonesia

2.There was/were _______black students besides Obama at the school where he studied when he was ten.

A no            B one               C two           D three

3.Obama became the first black president in US history when he was ______.

A 37            B 40                C 47            D 50

4.Which of the following is true?

A Obama’s father was a Kenyan prince.

B Obama once forgot who his father was with the help of alcohol.

C Obama was so dishonest when he was young that nobody believed him.

D Obama changed his college life because of his friends’ help and his hard work

5.From the passage we can see that____________.

A. we could judge a person by the colour of his skin 

B. we could not judge a person by the content of his character 

C. we should not judge a person by the color of his skin 

D. we should judge a person by what he did when he was young