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Task 4 (17-22)

Read the text below. Choose from (A—H) the one which best fits each space (17-22). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Log Cabins and the White House

Bill Clinton's father - a man the former president never knew - was a truck driver 17)___ but his nationality and his family name. Bill spent his early years in a small wooden one-story house in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, the kind of house in which millions of ordinary working class Americans still live. In a sense, 18)____in which so many American heroes are reputed to have been brought up.

Since the start of the nineteenth century, candidates for the American presidency have taken pride in demonstrating the humble roots from which they have come; 19)______, at a time when the United States were beginning to move west and occupy new territory, and home-built log cabins were the only form of housing available for the pioneering homesteaders.

Yet the only American president who could truthfully claim 20)____ was Abraham Lincoln, who was born in just such a building on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky.

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood is one of the great classics of the American Dream; Lincoln spent his childhood years in a variety of log cabins, as his father moved from place to place, 21)____. In the winter of 1816-17, the Lincolns lived in a "half-faced camp", a log cabin which was totally open on one side, in an "unbroken forest" in the heart of almost uninhabited Indiana.

Naturally, there are many people in America who yearn nostalgically for a return to old ways; but in today's mediatized world, where image is everything, and money buys the time and the TV and social media ads without which images cannot be built, it is hard to imagine the clock being put back. Besides, although many poor Americans still live in small wooden houses, 22)____. The age of the log-cabin-raised president is definitely over.

Log Cabins and the White House

Bill Clinton's father - a man the former president never knew - was a truck driver 17)___ but his nationality and his family name. Bill spent his early years in a small wooden one-story house in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, the kind of house in which millions of ordinary working class Americans still live. In a sense, 18)____in which so many American heroes are reputed to have been brought up.

Since the start of the nineteenth century, candidates for the American presidency have taken pride in demonstrating the humble roots from which they have come; 19)______, at a time when the United States were beginning to move west and occupy new territory, and home-built log cabins were the only form of housing available for the pioneering homesteaders.

Yet the only American president who could truthfully claim 20)____ was Abraham Lincoln, who was born in just such a building on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky.

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood is one of the great classics of the American Dream; Lincoln spent his childhood years in a variety of log cabins, as his father moved from place to place, 21)____. In the winter of 1816-17, the Lincolns lived in a "half-faced camp", a log cabin which was totally open on one side, in an "unbroken forest" in the heart of almost uninhabited Indiana.

Naturally, there are many people in America who yearn nostalgically for a return to old ways; but in today's mediatized world, where image is everything, and money buys the time and the TV and social media ads without which images cannot be built, it is hard to imagine the clock being put back. Besides, although many poor Americans still live in small wooden houses, 22)____. The age of the log-cabin-raised president is definitely over.

Log Cabins and the White House

Bill Clinton's father - a man the former president never knew - was a truck driver 17)___ but his nationality and his family name. Bill spent his early years in a small wooden one-story house in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, the kind of house in which millions of ordinary working class Americans still live. In a sense, 18)____in which so many American heroes are reputed to have been brought up.

Since the start of the nineteenth century, candidates for the American presidency have taken pride in demonstrating the humble roots from which they have come; 19)______, at a time when the United States were beginning to move west and occupy new territory, and home-built log cabins were the only form of housing available for the pioneering homesteaders.

Yet the only American president who could truthfully claim 20)____ was Abraham Lincoln, who was born in just such a building on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky.

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood is one of the great classics of the American Dream; Lincoln spent his childhood years in a variety of log cabins, as his father moved from place to place, 21)____. In the winter of 1816-17, the Lincolns lived in a "half-faced camp", a log cabin which was totally open on one side, in an "unbroken forest" in the heart of almost uninhabited Indiana.

Naturally, there are many people in America who yearn nostalgically for a return to old ways; but in today's mediatized world, where image is everything, and money buys the time and the TV and social media ads without which images cannot be built, it is hard to imagine the clock being put back. Besides, although many poor Americans still live in small wooden houses, 22)____. The age of the log-cabin-raised president is definitely over.