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  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th US president(总统).He was not good-looking and he liked to make fun of himself.This helped him get through many hard times.Here's one example.

  One day, a man pointed a gun at him.Lincoln got a little afraid but tried to keep cool.He asked the man,“So what do you want?”The man held the gun to Lincoln's head and said,“A few years ago I decided that if I saw an uglier man than myself, I would shoot(射杀)him.”

  When Lincoln heard this, he was not worried any more.With a smile, he said to the man,“Shoot me then, for if I am uglier than you, I don't want to live.”

(1)

What did Lincoln look like?

[  ]

A.

He was a good-looking man.

B.

He looked very ugly.

C.

He hated his appearance.

D.

He wanted to change his looks.

(2)

When a man used a gun to point at him, Lincoln, ________.

[  ]

A.

tried to run away

B.

tried to be calm

C.

tried to fight with him

D.

tried to make friends with him

(3)

What does the last sentence mean?

[  ]

A.

Lincoln wanted to die.

B.

Lincoln hated being an ugly man.

C.

The man with the gun was uglier than Lincoln.

D.

Lincoln was just joking.

(4)

Which of the following is not true according to the story?

[  ]

A.

Lincoln was a humorous man.

B.

The man thought Lincoln was uglier than him.

C.

Lincoln always made jokes about his looks.

D.

Lincoln was killed by this man.

阅读理解。

     There was an old pear tree in a man's garden. In the past,  the  tree  fruited  every  year, so the man
would  get  many  pears. But  now, the tree got old. There  were  no more  pears  for  the man. So the
ungrateful man decided to cut the tree down. When he walked toward the tree with an axe in his hand,
the tree said to him, "Please don't cut me down. I have borne so many pears for you in the past years.
Now I will die soon. I only have a short time to live. Please don't kill a dying tree that has done so much
for you."
     "I'm sorry. I have to do so," the man said, "because I need wood to make a chair." Then he began to
wave his axe. At that moment, a bird in the old tree shouted at him, "Don't cut it down! Every time you
go out and your wife feels lonely, she will come out to the garden and sit under the tree to enjoy its cool
shade, and I sing songs to make her happy. We give much pleasure to  your  wife  when  you  are away
from home."
     The man didn't listen to the bird and drove it away. Just when he was about to cut the tree, some
bees flew out of it and said, "Listen! If you agree not to kill this tree, we will give you delicious honey
every day. Would you please leave the tree with us?"
     The man got moved. He said, "You are so kind to the tree, although it has become old. Now I see
that I shouldn't cut it down. It has done so much for me and my wife. Let the tree stay here, and let the
bird continue its songs here." With these words, the man left. And the old tree lived there to its last day.