Question

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii with a Kenyan father and an American mother. His father , Barack Obama Sr, married his mother, Ann Dunbarn, while studing at the University of Hawaii. The coupel separated two years after Obama was born, His father ultimately returned to Kenya, where he became a noted economist, He died in a car accident in 1982.

Obama’s mother’s second marriage was to an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro. The family moved to Indonesia and Obama remained there until he was 10 when he moved back to Hawaii and lived with his grandparents, while studying on a schloarship at the elice Punahou Academy.

He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father’s other marriages, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother’s second marriage.

After finishing college in 1983 , Obama worked for a New York financial consultant and a consumer organization. He landed a job in Chicago in 1985 as an organizer for Developing Communities Project, a church based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods.

Three years later, Obama went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the law review. He worked as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago, where he met his future wife. After graduation from Harvard in 1991 , Obama practiced civil rights law at a small firm in Chicago. He became a lecture in constitutional law at the University of Chicago in 1993.

Obama won a seat in the Illiao state Senate in 1996. During this time in the legislaturem he worked on welfare and ethics legislation, as well as a measure requiring electronic recording of police interogations and confessions in homicide investigations.

Obama won a heavily contested US Senate seat in 2004, carrying 53 percent of the Democratic primary vote in an eight-candidate race. He easily won the general election, In the Senae he compiled(編輯) a liberal voting record, but was one of the few Democrats to back a measure on class-action lawsuits. He opposed the appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the US Superme Court

The nonpartisan(無黨派的)National Journal ranked him as the most liberal member of the Senate early this year,  based on his voting record in 2007 He was ranked 10^th most liberal in 2006 and 16^th most liberal in 2005 (404words)

 

64. What happened to Obama when he was a child?

A. His father died in a car accident

B. His mother married a Kenyan father

C. His parents separated and his mother remarried an Indonesian man

D. He studied at the University of Hawaii,

65. In which year did Obaman go ot Harvard Law School

A. In 1983       B. In 1985     C. In 1988    D. In 1991

66.Which of the following sentences in right?

A. His mother was divorced from his father when he was two years old

B. Obama moved back ot Hawaii and lived with his grandparents until he was 10

C. The nonpartisan(無黨派的) National Journal ranked him as the most liberal member of the Senate bacause he won the general election

D. He met his future wife in Chicago while studying on a scholarship at the elice Punahou Academy

67. How many sisters and brothers does Obama have?

A. 7     B. 8      C. 0       D. 9

Answer 1

C     C     A     C