You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.

 

Hi everybody. This weekend, we’ll (1) …………………………. the newest American icon on our National Mall – the National Museum of African American History and (2) ………………….. . It’s a beautiful building, five stories high and some 70 feet below the ground, (3) ……………………….. just across the street from the Washington Monument. And this museum tells a story of America that hasn’t always taken a front seat in our national (4) ………………………….. . As a people, we’ve rightfully passed on the (5) …………………… of the giants who built this country. But too often, willful or not, we’ve chosen to gloss over or ignore (6) ……………………… the experience of millions upon millions of others. But this museum chooses to tell  fuller story. It’s doesn’t gauze up some bygone era or avoid the uncomfortable truths. Rather, it embraces the(7) ………………………..  recognition that America is a constant work in progress; that each successive generation can look upon our (8) ………………………………. and decide that it is within our collective power to align this nation with high ideals of our founding.

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