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科目：英语
题型：完型填空
难度：中等
人气：1568

题文

Washington, Jefferson, Franklin were large names for me as I journeyed to the United States for study, but to me, __36 _student, the most exciting American person was Abraham Lincoln.
I had visited Lincoln’s homeland. I had visited his__37__in Kentucky. Now it was a moonlight night I__38__cross the Arlington Memorial Bridge, as I got to the Memorial(纪念碑), suddenly a __39__appeared. “ What are you doing here at this time of the night? We have been on duty all day. We’re __40__now. Come back tomorrow morning?”
“Can I sit here on the step for a while?” I asked. “I ’ve __41__this bag for a long time.”
“__42__,” in the bright moonlight he looked at me, “I see you are a __43__. I’m saving some money myself to go to__44__,by taking care of Old Abe.”
The man looked at the place where the__45__stood covered by darkness. “Lincoln here, he__46 __my grandfather ,who was a slave（奴隶）. I__47__Lincon now and he’s going to put me through law school. There is a certain dignity（尊严）about Lincoln. I think it won’t__48__a foreign student visitor. Come with me and meet him.”
I__49__the guard into the darkness.
“Stay here,” he said, “ while I__50__the lights, look up. Boy, you are going to have the treat of your life.”
I stood __51__waiting.
The light shone__52__on Lincoln’s head and then __53__ him. Long I stood there. His voice and deeds（事迹）led the __54__to freedom. I wondered about the people who had made such a nation(国家) __55__.