单项选择题

The list of candidates for greatest men of the 20th century is as short as it is extraordinary.
Franklin Roosevelt is the obvious American (1) . He guided the United States safely through the century’s gravest damages, the Great (2) and World War Ⅱ. His long lasting New Deal imprint still (3) America today.
Let us not forget giants of science like Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. But the list would not be complete (4) the name of Nelson Mandela, the (5) South African President who died on Thursday at 95. It’s hard to name anyone, anywhere, in any time whose life is quite a (6) for his.
Mandela led his people to freedom, ending the apartheid (种族隔离) rule of South Africa’s (7) white-minority regime. But neither of those men, (8) the others mentioned here, was put to such an extraordinary personal test.
All you need to know to grasp the (9) of Mandela is this: He spent 27 years in prison. He was given no hope and allowed little (10) with the outside world. Yet instead of yielding to his plight—or (11) his cause by speaking a few words that (12) him free—he persisted, fighting against all odds and emerging (13) , a leader of such stature that his (14) could not stand against him.And then, at his moment of (15) , with the presidency of South Africa in his hands, he (16) not revenge for all that had been done to him (17) racial peace for his people, black and white, which—incredibly—he achieved.
Such is the power of history’s few (18) great leaders and the examples they set. If Mandela could suffer (19) he did without seeking revenge, then how could others do any less And how could the nation’s fearful and suspicious white minority (20) the olive branch

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