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上海市光明中学2018-2019学年高一下学期英语期中考试试卷
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Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a voice in the year before the Civil War.
A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) Douglass's birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year . (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 in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew up to become the first black to hold a government office— as US minister and consul general (总领事)to Haiti.
As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 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 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 , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.
He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which African-Americans the right to vote.
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Filmgoers should be told how many calories there are in the popcorn, ice cream and soft drinks that they buy in cinemas, according to the Food Standard Agency.
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"There is a misbelief that popcorn is calorie-free, but that is not the case. It is a {#blank#}3{#/blank#}to us," he said. "Portion sizes are also a big issue, and there seems to be increasingly big packs on sale."
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A trial scheme（试行方案） with 21 food companies took place last summer, and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}are that consumers altered their buying habits when they realised the number of calories in a product.
A consultation(征询意见) on the trial ends next month but Mr Smith is already planning the second drive for American-style calorie counts and is {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to win support from cinemas and other entertainment places, from football grounds to concert halls.
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