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rss url="http://www.enread.com/data/rss/64.xml" link="true" number="10" 1. My Beauty and your Brains Question: Listen and enjoy the story and share it with your friends [|Brains and beauty.mp3] 2. Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs as a worker, a shopkeeper and a post officer in his early years. A larger number of US presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general(将军 ) in the American Civil War. It happened that they came from the same school— West Point Military Academy(西点军校 ). One may be surprised to learn that both of them didn’ t do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was fined(罚款 ) because he broke the rules of the school. The jobs of the US president are tiring. He must keep an eye on everything important which happened both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waited for him to do and he had to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, “When you grow up, you should not be a president. It’s a tiring job.” Choose the best answer according to the passage. 1. In the nineteenth century, many US presidents ___.__ __A. got poor education during their childhood__ __B. didn’t like to go to school in their early years__ __C. got good education during their childhood__ __D. hadn’t any knowledge in their work at all__ __(2. How many US presidents who came from West Point Military Academy are mentioned?__ __A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.__ __3. In the last paragraph, the underlined phrase “keep an eye on” means “___”. A. pay no attention to B. take care of C. never sleep all the day D. look at everything with one eye 4. What can be inferred(推测 ) from the passage? A. Most of the people who had studied at West Point Military Academy became presidents. B. Only those who didn’t study well at school could be presidents. C. All the American presidents were born in poor families. D. Many American presidents had served in the army before they took office. 5. Which of the following is TRUE? A. In the US, no one wanted to be president. B. US presidents’ jobs are important and tiring. C. None of the presidents except Taft would like to do the tiring job. D. President Taft didn’t want Roosevelt to be a president because he was too young