2017年6月大学英语六级阅读理解精炼50篇34缅怀林肯总统(含答案)

2017年6月大学英语六级阅读理解精炼50篇

34缅怀林肯总统(含答案)

英语六级阅读理解精炼第34篇，练习缅怀林肯总统，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。

34. president lincoln1

the civil war2 lasted four years. it ended in 1865 . president lincoln signed the order that made the slaves in the south free . soon there would be no more slavery in america.

all the states were united again. the union was saved. but the damages of war had to be mended. the country must be led back to peace.

president lincoln looked old. his face was lined3 with worry.

one evening mrs. lincoln wanted to cheer up4 the president. she asked him to take her to the theater. the president and mrs. lincoln sat in a box5. halfway through the play a shot was fired. president lincoln was killed. an actor named john wilkes booth had shot the president. booth was a queer, half crazy person, who had been upset by the war.

people all over the country, north and south, were shocked by the terrible news. the whole country had lost its great leader.

the train that carried president lincoln back home to springfield was draped6 in black. crowds of people stood by the railroad tracks in every city and town. some waited all night on lonesome country roads to see the train go by. many of the people wept.

the train moved slowly. its mournful whistle blew across the prairie where young abe lincoln had lived. abraham lincoln was buried in springfield, illinois, where he lived the happiest years with his family.

in washington , d. c., the lincoln memorial7 helps americans remember their great president. there is a beautiful statue to lincoln . his face looks down on the thousands of people who come there. it makes each one feel the deep kindness and understanding that abraham lincoln showed to all people while he lived.

阅读自测

Ⅰ. multiple choices: choose the correct meaning of the underlined words:

his face is lined with worry.

a. telephone connection

b. long narrow mark, either straight or curved

c. wrinkles

d. rope , thread

Ⅱ. according to the passage , which statement is false?

a. the civil war began in 1861.

b. president lincoln made the slaves in the south free after the war.

c. the lincoln memorial was built to remember the great president abraham lincoln.

d. after civil war all the states turned to be one stat

e. Ⅲ.

question :

in this passage, it mainly tells about the death of lincoln. but it also gives us some information of the great deeds he had done . try to say something about lincoln. 参考答案

Ⅰ. c Ⅱ. d Ⅲ. abraham lincoln was the 16 th president of america . he had led the american civil war and made the slaves in the south free . in this way all the states were united together as a whole country. lincoln was president. he was very kind to his people. when he died, people all over the country felt very sad. they lost their respectable president. it was really a great loss to them.

参考译文

缅怀林肯总统

美国内战持续了四年并于1865 年结束。林肯总统签发了解放南方奴隶的命令, 不久, 美国不再有奴隶制。

所有的州再次联合起来, 联邦得救了。但是, 战争带来的创伤需要医治, 国家必须被引回和平年代。

林肯总统看来老了, 脸上满是忧急之纹。一天晚上, 林肯夫人想让总统高兴一些, 就让他带自己去看戏。林肯总统和夫人在一个包厢里入座。演出进行到一半, 有人开枪了。总统遇