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　　Aristotle was the first to watch living things and to try to find out how life begins, and to write down things __1__. He watched things carefully and learned. Such are his__2__of work with the catfish（鲶鱼）.He __3__ hours in a small boat off the coast of Lesbos, looking down at a catfish that was __4__ its eggs among the grass like plant. Later he made a __5__ of what he had seen: “The fish lays eggs not deep in water, usually close to roots.” After he had watched the __6__ of the catfish for a long time, Aristotle began to __7__ other things about fish.

　　“Fishes can produce no __8__”, he wrote, “for they have no __9__ , but some of them, as the catfish in the river, make sounds __10__ rubbing their gill（鱼鳃）covers.”

　　So day after day from his small boat, Aristotle watched the life of the __11__ world. Everyone had seen fish before, and the fishermen knew something about their habits, for this __12__ helped them to get a bigger __13__. But until then no one had watched the ways of fish for the single aim of trying to understand them.

　　Aristotle thought that if he watched each living thing __14__ and wrote down what he saw, he would come __15__ to an understanding of life. It was there on the shore of the Lesbian Gulf __16__ he began his biological studies. Through the __17__ thus collected, Aristotle was able to write some fifty books. At his great school he __18__, Aristotle talked with his pupils, and he wrote down his __19__ in book after book. Most of Aristotle's books have been __20__, but enough of his works remain just to prove that he is the first and the greatest biologist.

It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it interested me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man's thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his cheeks. How different he looked!

That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl of my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers （连鬓胡子）.

    Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

    "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me." Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. "Do you think 1 look better, my little friend?" he asked me.

    My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

1．What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?

A．To explain how Grace Bedell took a photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

B．To explain why Abraham Lincoln wore a beard.

C．To explain why the first photographs were important in American life.

D．to explain why Westfield is an important city.

2．The word “flickering” in line 2 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．burning continuously                       B．burning brightly

C．burning unsteadily                         D．burning fiercely

3．Why did the little girl write the man a letter?

A．She was lonely.                                B．She wanted his daughter to write to her.

C．She wanted him to grow a beard.       D．She wanted him to visit her.

4．From the passage, it may be inferred that _______.

A．there were many people waiting for Lincoln to arrive on the train．

B．Grace Bedell was the only one at the train station when Lincoln stopped at Westfield.

C．Lincoln made a long speech at the station in Westfield.

D．Lincoln was astonished to see the little girl.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it interested me. I can remember holding it at every angle (角度) in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep. I noticed a shadow across the man's thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his cheeks. How different he looked!

　　That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him my real purpose of the letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers (连鬓胡子).

　　Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

“Ladies and gentlemen,”he said.“I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you so that I may see you and that you may see me.”Then he picked me right up, and kissed me on both cheeks.“Do you think I look better, my little friend?”he asked me.

　　My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

1．What is the writer's main purpose in the passage?

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A．To explain how Grace Bedell took a photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

B．To explain why Abraham Lincoln wore a beard.

C．To explain why Westfield is an important city.

D．To explain why the first photographs were important in American life.

2．The word“flickering”(in Paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to ________.

[　　]

A．burning unsteadily

B．burning brightly

C．burning fiercely (猛烈地)

D．burning continuously

3．From the passage it may be inferred that________.

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A．Grace Bedell was the only one to meet Abraham Lincoln at the train station when he stopped at Westfield

B．there were many people waiting for Lincoln to arrive at the train station

C．Lincoln made a long speech at the station in Westfield

D．Lincoln was surprised to see the little girl

4．Why did the little girl write the man a letter?

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A．She was too lonely.

B．She wanted his daughter to write to her.

C．She wanted him to grow a beard.

D．She wanted him to visit her.