On Mother's Day, after my children arrived home from school, the doorbell 1. I went to answer it, and there stood two clean-faced, tall, smiling2. They held two of the most beautiful flowers I had ever seen. They said to me, "Do you 3 us? You often fed us cookies! They were so 4. We wanted to come back and thank you and say Happy Mother s Day because you were1ike a mom to us!" I couldn't help crying, and thanked them.

    I remembered the old days. At that time I did not have a lot of money or a big house and I was a single mom with three young 5of my own. The two boys were a bit older 6my children. They always visited my yard, but they 7 cared about the fact that their faces were dirty. Every day they enjoyed themselves with my 8girls and one small boy.

    I spent a lot of time 9healthy cookies. The two boys played happily in my yard, and they were quite happy to share (分享) food, books, games and then, for a time, they didn't visit us. I wanted to know what happened in their lives, and hoped for the best.

    But now they came back and thanked me. This is the 10 gift I have ever received from two young boys.

    Abraham Lincoln was b in Kentucky in 1809. His mother died when he was ten years old. Later, his family m to Illinois and his father (再婚). The family was p, so they had to struggle just to live." In I1inois, there were n teachers nor schools but Lincoln's stepmother e him to study, He learned to read and write while w on the farm.

    At twenty-one, Lincoln left home. He soon r a law license and became a lawyer. People (信任) him and began to call him "honest Abbe".

    During the f years, he took a more (积极的) part in(政治) . Soon he was not only a highly respected lawyer but also a well-known politician. He was elected the sixteenth president of the United States in 1861, and in the same year the Civil War b out.

    The Civil War was b the southern states that wanted to leave the Union and form their own country, and the northern states that wanted to keep all the states as one country. The southern states wanted to keep the laws that a them own slaves. Both the northern states and President Lincoln wanted to get r of those laws. On April 9, 1865，the Civil War ended and all slaves were s free.

    L than a week later, on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was (枪击) at the Ford Theater in Washing, DC. He died the next day f his wounds.

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