Comprehension 1

This document provides a reading comprehension assessment with multiple choice and true/false questions about Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign. It tests understanding of key details, events, and outcomes of the election through incomplete sentences, word matching, and evaluating statements. While the changes and challenges of Obama's candidacy were daunting, he was able to resonate with voters and remold America's electoral politics by drawing unprecedented support from new voters. His success suggested the country may have been ready for a black president.

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Article 1 Comprehension

A. Complete the following sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. 1. Americans woke up to the historic possibility that they might have a black president not just within their lifetime but _________________________. 2. Former president Bill Clinton asked if the United States was ready to _______________ on an Obama presidency. 3. "Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us ________________________." 4. "Who will be the best president based not on a _____________ but on the kind of changes we've _________________?" 5. More than a third of his support was from _____________ and most of those who _______________ had never been to a caucus before. 6. He also refashioned the __________________ of America's electoral politics. 7. Obama has _________________ his race and white voters have so far mostly _________________, pretending either not to notice or suggesting that America has ________________________. 8. It was _______________ what that change would _________________, but it was always clear what it would __________________ B. Match the words on the left with their meaning on the right.

9. outset 10. likelihood 11. daunting 12. outsider 13. disarray 14. bedrock 15. brimming 16. underdog 17. doomed 18. remould 19. nosedived 20. sceptical

21. resonated 22. changed 23. non believer 24. start 25. confusion 26. probability 27. dropped 28. full of 29. intimidating 30. second best 31. echoed 32. foundation
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33. stranger

34. condemned

C. Say if the following statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN and justify with a sentence from the text.

35. "They said this day would come," said the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama 36. Last years month, former president Bill Clinton asked if the United States was ready to "roll the dice" on an Obama presidency. 37. Obama won, leaving Iowa with 36% of the vote, eight percentage points ahead of Hillary Clinton and having pushed John Edwards into third place with 29%. 38. The days when black politicians stood for office in order to force the issues affecting black communities from the margins to the mainstream are over. 39. With Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith by his side he quoted Martin Luther King about the "fierce urgency of now". 40. It was not entirely clear what that change would mean in practice, but it was always clear what it would look like. Peace. 41. That his name was neither Clinton nor Bush may have mattered less than the fact that it rhymed with "Osama".

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