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  3. Henry Kissinger was born in a small town, located【C1】______the south German province of Franconia, on May 27,1923. His father wa

Henry Kissinger was born in a small town, located【C1】______the south German province of Franconia, on May 27,1923. His father wa

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问题     Henry Kissinger was born in a small town, located【C1】______the south German province of Franconia, on May 27,1923. His father was a Professor at a local high school, his mother was a house-wife; the setting was typical German-middleclass.【C2】______the Kissingers were a Jewish family in Germany that was on the brink of Nazism. He and his younger brother were often beaten by anti-Semitic youngsters on their way to and【C3】______their school; finally they were expelled and【C4】______to attend an all-Jewish institution. Their father was forced to resign his professor-ship. After years of social torture, the family【C5】______to the United States in 1938.
    In America, the Kissinger【C6】______lived in New York City, in a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan among thousands of other【C7】______and Austrian refugees. Henry Kissinger was never assimilated by the culture and society that made up America; in taste【C8】______style, he would always be distinctly European.
    After four years in a New York City high school,【C9】______he had shown special【C10】______in mathematics, Kissinger began to study accounting at night sessions of the City University of New York, earning his tuition during the daytime. But then, in 1943, he was drafted by the US Army, an army which was at【C11】______with the Axis Powers.
    After the war, his friend Kraemer got him a job【C12】______an instructor in an Army training school that paid $10,000 a year. "That was real【C13】______power in 1946," Kraemer would remark later. But Kissinger was【C14】______interested in that materialist lure; he felt he wanted【C15】______education of his own. And so he won a New York State scholarship, gave up his well-paying【C16】______, and enrolled at Harvard in September 1946.
    Since the Civil War, Harvard had carefully nurtured its pipeline to the nation’s capital. In the postwar years, the Department of State was small and unsteady; in many situations, its first reflex was to turn【C17】______Harvard’s area specialists. In late 1965, Kissinger【C18】______invited to Saigon to investigate American involvement in Vietnam. In the following decades he【C19】______a famous activist of political and diplomatic【C20】______.
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