Complete the following passage by using the
words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word
more than you need.
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A. honored B. set C. historic D. secretly E. citizen F. granted G. route H briefly I. restoration J. leading K. witnessed
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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{#blank#}1{#/blank#} voice in the year before the Civil War.
A few weeks ago, the
National Park Service (NPS) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Douglass's birth and Black History Month with
reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a{#blank#}3{#/blank#} site in
Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's
personal possessions, had undergone a three-year {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . (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 {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 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{#blank#}6{#/blank#} 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 {#blank#}7{#/blank#} 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 {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a
time.
He died in 1895. In his
lifetime, Douglass {#blank#}9{#/blank#} 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{#blank#}10{#/blank#} African-Americans the right to vote.
