阅读表达 The Gettysburg Address:Fourscoreand seven years ago our fathers brought for

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The Gettysburg Address：Fourscore(八十)and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, made in liberty and offered the idea that all men are created equal．Now we are brought in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so made can long stand．We met on a great battlefield of that war．We have come to offer part of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that the nation might live．It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this．But in a larger sense, we cannot offer, and we cannot hallow(使……神圣)this ground．The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or decrease．The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here．It is for us the living rather to be devoted here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have so far so nobly advanced．It is rather for us to be here devoted to the great work remaining before us－that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion－that we here make up our minds that these dead shall not have died in vain(白白地), that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not die from the earth．

Read the passage and answer the following questions．

1．Can you describe the nation? Try to describe it．

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2．What's the civil war used for?

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3．What's the duty of the living?

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4．How many years did the nation have when the passage was addressed?

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5．What should the government be?

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试题答案

答案：

1．It is a new nation and it is made in liberty and offered the idea that all men are created equal．

2．It is used for testing whether the nation or any nation so made can long stand．

3．The duty is to be devoted to the unfinished work and the great work remaining before us．

4．Eightyseven years．

5．It should be of the people, by the people and for the people．