“She gets along well with people and yet she can be very strong and tough.” said the president’s father and her former boss,the first President Bush. “She is a leader but she doesn’t show it off.She just makes good things happen.”
Second cousin and civil rights lawyer Constance Rice says about her. “There’s nobody with more steel in their bone than Condi.The hotter the situation,the calmer she gets.”
Rice says it was her parents who gave her the confidence that she could achieve anything with.They taught her,too,to appreciate her opportunities,and Rice later cofounded a program for less fortunate kids in a school district near Stanford University,where she was a professor of political science at 26.As to marriage,45 Rice says. “I’ve always assumed that if I got married,it would be because I found somebody that I actually wanted to live with,which simply hasn’t happened to this point.”
1.What can be inferred from the passage?
A.Rice is the first woman advisor on America’s national security.
B.Rice has won the respect of politicians at home and abroad.
C.Rice didn’t get on well with her former boss.
D.The first President Bush
doesn’t think highly of her.
2.By saying
“she’s at his elbow”,the writer means that ________.
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