高等继续教育 / 大学英语语法
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historic
secretly
restoration
witnessed
route
leading
honoured
set
granted
citizen
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a ( 1 ) voice in the year before the Civil War. A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) ( 2 ) Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a ( 3 ) site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year ( 4 ). (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.) He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black ( 5 ) to hold a government office — as US minister and consul general to Haiti. As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he ( 6 ) taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity. In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system ( 7 ) up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the ( 8 ) , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time. He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass ( 9 ) the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, which ( 10 ) African-Americans the right to vote.
historic
secretly
restoration
witnessed
route
leading
honoured
set
granted
citizen
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a ( 1 ) voice in the year before the Civil War. A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) ( 2 ) Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a ( 3 ) site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year ( 4 ). (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.) He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black ( 5 ) to hold a government office — as US minister and consul general to Haiti. As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he ( 6 ) taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity. In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system ( 7 ) up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the ( 8 ) , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time. He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass ( 9 ) the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, which ( 10 ) African-Americans the right to vote.
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