Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Many American
presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their
childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little e{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never
went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln even did j{#blank#}2{#/blank#}of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer
in his early years.
A large
number of US presidents experienced in the army. The two best known were
Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the America
Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that
they g{#blank#}3{#/blank#} from the same school-West Point Military
Academy. One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the
school. Eisenhower, for example, was o{#blank#}4{#/blank#} fined because he broke the
rules of the school.
The jobs
of US presidents are t{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.
He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and a{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Every day, a lot of work is there for him
to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was
a child, he was b{#blank#}7{#/blank#}to
visit President Taft. The old president said to him. "When you grow up, you
should not be president. It's a boring job."
