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题型:语法填空-短文语填 难度:0.65 引用次数:63 题号:12104399
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

During the American Civil War, a young man     1     (name) Roswell McIntyre was drafted into the army. The war was not going well. The army needed     2     (soldier) so much that he was sent into battle without being trained. Roswell became scared and ran. Later he     3     (sentence) to be shot for desertion. Roswell's mother appealed to President Lincoln,     4     (beg) that he was young and inexperienced, and that he needed     5     second chance.

Lincoln thought for a while. Then he wrote an     6     (admire) statement. "I have noticed,"   he said, "that it never does a boy much good to shoot him." He wrote this letter in his own handwriting: "Roswell McIntyre     7     (be) to be readmitted into the army. When he serves out his required enlistment (服兵役期人) he will be freed of any charges of desertion? "

That letter, signed by President Lincoln, is     8     display in the Library of Congress. Beside it there is a note.     9     reads, "This letter was taken from the body of Roswell McIntyre, who died respectably at the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia." Now you might be     10    (vast) surprised at the power of forgiveness.

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