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【译林湖南版】2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练 Module 2 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplainedⅠ.填词 Another US President won the Nobel Peace Prize for his calls to reduce the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons and working for world peace on October 9,2009. US President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”．The first African-American to hold his country’s highest office，Obama has called for disarmament(裁减军备)and worked to restart the stalled(陷入泥潭)Middle East peace process since taking office in January.“Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given his people hope for a better future，” the Committee said. Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 as ex-president for what the Nobel Prize Committee said “his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts，to advance democracy and human rights，and to promote economic and social development”． Woodrow Wilson won the 1919 prize in recognition of his Fourteen Points peace programme and work in achieving inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War One.“The President succeeded in bringing a design for a fundamental law of humanity into present-day international politics，”the Nobel Committee said. | 
