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Reading Drill No.6

　There have been 44 presidents of the United States.  Some are remembered as courageous heroes who led the nation through grave crisis.  For instance, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, and Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd, are revered today for guiding the country through the Civil War and World War Ⅱ, respectively.  Others are remembered less fondly for the crisis they failed to resolve.  Herbert Hoover, for example, who easily won the 1928 election, had the misfortune of becoming president just several months before the disastrous stock market crash of 1929.  That crash triggered the Great Depression, a global economic crisis that saw banks take farmers’ land and people’s homes.  Unfortunately, the president failed to resolve the economic problems facing the nation, which would continue until America entered World WarⅡtwelve years later.  Needless to say, Hoover lost the trust of the American people―and the next election in 1932.
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