The first Black Woman in the Congress

Being the first black woman【小题1】(elect) to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon. There are nine other blacks in Congress; there are ten other women. I was the first 【小题2】(overcome) both handicaps(障碍)at once. Of the two handicaps, 【小题3】(be)black is much less of a handicap than being female.

If I said that being black is a【小题4】 (great)handicap than being woman, probably no one would question me. Why? Because "we all know" there is prejudice against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea【小题5】still strikes nearly all men-and, I am afraid, most women-as strange.

Prejudice against blacks was invisible to most white Americans for many years. When blacks finally started to "mention" it, with sit-ins and freedom rides, Americans could hardly believe it."Who, us?" they asked 【小题6】 injured tones. "We 【小题7】(prejudice)?" It was the start of a long, painful reeducation for white America. It will take years for whites-including those 【小题8】think of themselves as liberals-to discover and eliminate the racist attitudes they all actually have.

How much harder will it be to eliminate the prejudice against women? I am sure it will be a longer struggle. Part of the problem is 【小题9】women in America are much more brainwashed and happy with【小题10】roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever before.

Humankind’s growing need for food is running up against thousands of other species’ need for space. By 2050, humans may need to clear an additional 3.35 million square 【小题1】 (kilometer) of land for agriculture. 【小题2】 (transform) these largely natural habitats would squeeze more than 17,000 vertebrate species from some of their lands. But changing how and where food 【小题3】 (grow) can minimize the impacts. “We can feed the planet without messing it up too badly,” says conservation scientist David Williams.

Tim Berners-Lee. If you don’t know his name very well, you’ve surely used his famous 【小题1】 (invent). The British scientist 【小题2】 (create) the World Wide Web in the 1980s. On Oct 29, the Internet 【小题3】 (official) turned 50 years old. To mark the day, Berners-Lee wrote online, “The Internet & the web it enabled have changed billions of lives for 【小题4】 better. But their power for good is under threat.

【小题5】 (speak) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he pointed out three problems affecting today’s web – criminal behavior, ad-filled websites, and offensive online communication, 【小题6】 led Berners-Lee to create the Web Foundation and a contract for the web. Both aim 【小题7】 (protect) Internet users. In the contract, he mentioned the need for companies to make sure that everyone has web access, called for a reduction in offensive material, and more 【小题8】 (person) data privacy. The latter is a hot topic right now. Big companies, like Facebook, have 【小题9】 (use) users’ private information by sharing it with advertisers.

In the next 30 years, if we give up on trying to build a better web, we will have failed it. We need to come together 【小题10】 a global community (社区).