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請用適當?shù)脑~完成下面的短文, 并把所缺單詞填寫在答題卡指定的位置上。每個空只能填寫一個形式正確、意義相符的單詞

Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809. His mother died 1.he was ten years old. Then, his family moved to Illinois and his father remarried. The family was poor, 2.they had to live a hard life. In Illinois, there were3.teachers nor schools, but Lincoln’s stepmother( 繼 母 ) encouraged him to study. He learned to read and write while working on the farm.

At twenty-one, Lincoln left home. He soon received a law license and4. a lawyer. People trusted him and began to call5. “Honest Abe”.

During the following years, he took 6. active part in politics. Soon he was not only a highly respected lawyer but also a well-known politician. He was elected the sixteenth president of the United States7.1860, and in the next year the Civil War broke out.

The Civil War was between the southern states that wanted to leave the Union and form their own country, and the northern8.that wanted to keep all the states as one country. The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves( 奴 隸 ). Both the northern states and President Lincoln wanted to get rid of those laws. On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended and all slaves were set free.

Less than a week9., on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot( 中 槍 ) at the Ford Theater in Washington D. C. He10.the next day from his wounds. The whole country cried for him. Today many Americans still remember him.

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