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Celebrity 名人 Unit 6
E xercises
Ⅰ. Post-reading Activities
Text Comprehension
1. If Obama didn‘t do well in the speaking, people will be disappointed. But the people were not disappointed by him. When Obama showed his attractive smile, talking about his ideas, the crowd shouted their support to him. 2. Because in his opinion, it would be naive to think that we can deal with these crazy terrorists simply through diplomacy. 3. Plenty of observers believed that these two facts will doom Obama‘s candidacy. However, others thought that the supposed hurdles may prove to be advantages. 4. Although he is a black, he grew up in a white family and received educations in famous universities, which was greatly different from the experiences of average black people. 5. The blacks on the one hand, wanted to support Obama to become the 1st African- American president; on the other hand, they doubted Obama, who was raised by white grandparents, whose black heritage has nothing to do with slavery, and whose education is Ivy elite, would really relate to their problems. 6. Obama can‘t afford this kind of credibility gap, so he has tried to reassure Americans that he‘d be aggressive in the country‘s defense. In an August speech, he went so far as to say he would consider attacking Al-Qaeda sanctuaries inside Pakistan. 7. Obama‘s inexperience can be helpful in Presidential politics, where a long legislative record is like deadweight dragging you down. Besides, his views are still evolving. People come to him for what they hope he could be. 8. Darling says :―he‘s been in the Senate long enough to become a media sensation, but not so long that h