阅读理解

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 ________.

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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.

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.