题目内容：

    We celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday(February 12) and we should.Lincoln was one of the few great men who really was great. Before he became ______, Lincoln spent twenty years as an unsuccessful Illinois lawyer--at least he was unsuccessful in ______ terms(方面）.But when you ______ the good he did, he was really very rich. Legends are often ______, but Lincoln was the real thing. George Washington never chopped down a cherry tree, but Abraham Lincoln was ______. During his years as a lawyer, there were hundreds of documented examples of his honesty and decency(体面).

For example, Lincoln didn’t like to charge(索费）people much ______ were as ______ as he was. Once a man sent him twenty-five dollars, but Lincoln sent him back ten of it, saying he was being too generous. He was known at times to ______ his clients(客户) to solve their problem out of court(法庭),saving them a lot of money, and ______ himself nothing.

An old woman in ______, the widow(孀妇) of a soldier, was charged $200 for getting her $400 pension(养老金). Lincoln sued (起诉）the pension agent and ______ the case(案子) for the old woman. He didn’t charge her for his ______ and, in fact, paid her hotel bill and gave her money to buy a ticket home!

He was a ______, perhaps, by certain standards. He didn’t have much, and it was his own ______. But he was a good human being by anyone’s standards and I’m glad we ______ his birthday.

______ makes you feel good about yourself and creates ______ in others. It ______ your relationship with yourself and with others. It’s not much in ______ these days to talk about the advantages of honesty and decency, but the advantages are there and they are valuable and ______ the trouble.

1.A.lawyer B.president C.soldier D.teacher

2.A.financial B.healthy C.personal D.political

3.A.guess B.value C.tell D.weigh

4.A.impolite B.interesting C.untrue D.harmless

5.A.rich B.honest C.foolish D.poor

6.A.who B.which C.whom D.they

7.A.generous B.kind C.intelligent D.poor

8.A.permit B.persuade C.force D.expect

9.A.taking B.offering C.earning D.costing

10.A.treasure B.illness C.poorness D.weakness

11.A.won B.lost C.got D.advised

12.A.pension B.problem C.suggestions D.services

13.A.lawyer B.politician C.businessman D.fool

14.A.fault B.ability C.character D.disadvantage

15.A.remember B.respect C.celebrate D.congratulate

16.A.Pension B.Honesty C.Birthday D.Service

17.A.chance B.love C.feeling D.trust

18.A.matches B.compares C.improves D.builds

19.A.fashion B.time C.return D.name

20.A.above B.worth C.without D.beneath