English, 17.02.2020 21:22 devenybates
Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:
(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal
can long endure. We are met on a great
Now we are engaged in a great civil war.. testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated
battlefield of that war.
(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate... we cannot consecrate... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here.
What is the main purpose of this speech?
A) To enrage the crowd
B) To make new demands
C) To provide a change
D) To show respect
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