案例分析题
Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who were (67) young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his (68) left for Harvard, Barack and his mother stayed behind, and his father (69) returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack’s mother (70) an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later (71) Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing (72) to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was (73) up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment — his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother (74) in a bank — but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii’s top prep (75) His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official (76) for Kenya, he visited only once, when Baraek was ten.
Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York’s racial tension (77) He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents (78) with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first (79) -American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a (80) judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, (81) victims of housing and employment (82) and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Eventually he (83) as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district, which included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side, and won.
In 2004 Obama was (84) to the U. S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and gained national attention by giving a rousing and (85) keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran (86) president as a democrat and won. He is set to become the 44th president of the Unites States and the first African-American ever elected to that position.
69（）
A．only
B．ultimately
C．simply
D．initially
