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Franklin wasn’t a man to sit around（閑坐那里無所事事）?and wonder what to do. In the first hundred days, he signed fifteen major laws bringing help. No president had ever gotten so much done so fast.（過去完成時）
Franklin not only dealt （原形deal）with the Depression, (完全省略but also)he led the country through the dark days of World War II.
What made him such a strong leader? Perhaps his strength came in part(局部的) from a personal crisis. It happened when he was thirty-nine years old. He was on summer vacation with his family. Over’night he was struck with（被打擊） a disease called polio（小兒麻痹癥）. Franklin never walked again. But he fought hard to stay strong and healthy. He never gave up. He ran the country with the same spirit and optimism.
Not everyone liked Franklin’s ideas. But most of the country loved him. Millions （代好幾百萬人）wept《weep v. (wept, wept) 哭泣》 as if he were part of their family when they learned of （獲悉突發(fā)腦溢血）his sudden death. Many could not imagine the United States without FDR as president.
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sit around/about 閑坐，不干正經(jīng)事
polio n. 脊髓灰質(zhì)炎（小兒麻痹癥）
weep v. (wept, wept) 哭泣
