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　　Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.

　　As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over 3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton－growing states of the South. The Northern States had ended the slavery. Yet, most Northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.

　　Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting her six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the story of an old slave, Tom, and Simon Legree, a slave owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom's Cabin first came out in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.

　　People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until 1865, finally brought an end to slavery at last.

　　Of course, there were many things that made the Civil War happen. Yet, Uncle Tom's Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862. As Lincoln took her hand, he said, “So you are the little woman who started the big war.”

1．Before Uncle Tom's Cabin came out, most Northerners ________.

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A．were slaves in the South

B．did not know how bad slavery was

C．kept slaves in their homes

D．understood that slavery was wrong

2．While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beecher Stowe, ________.

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A．many Southerners wanted war

B．many Southerners had not read the book

C．many Southerners were angry at her

D．some slaves tried to run away from the North

3．From the text we can see that ________.

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A．Stowe was a very young woman

B．Stowe's husband was dead when she wrote the stories

C．Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children

D．Stowe could not work on her book at all during the day time

4．Uncle Tom' s Cabin was ________.

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A．a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe

B．a history book

C．a book that helped change history

D．a book about the American Civil War

5．Harriet Beecher Stowe ________.

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A．was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Lincoln

B．was strongly against slavery

C．helped some slaves run away from the South

D．met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War