Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that ___1___ against slavery（奴隶制）.

    As Harriet Beecher Stowe ___2___ her book, there were over 3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States had ___3___ slavery. Yet, most Northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not ___4___ that slavery continued in the South.

    Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night ___5___ putting her six children to bed, she worked on her book. She described the life of slave owners. She also described how the slaves tried to ___6___ for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came out in 1852. Over 3000,000 books were sold out in a year.

    People had ___7___ ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very ___8___ with the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War（美国内战）, which ___9___ until 1865, finally brought an end to slavery.

    Of course, there were many things ___10___ made the Civil War happen. Yet, Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part.

  请先通读上面的文章，掌握其大意，然后从各题后所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项填空，使短文意思完整通顺。

（   ）1. A. knew     B. turned     C. spoke   D. showed

（   ）2. A. finished   B. wrote     C. sold    D. bought

（   ）3. A. ended     B. kept      C. used    D. taken

（   ）4. A. see       B. know     C. notice   D. mind

（   ）5. A. before    B. after      C. until    D. unless

（   ）6. A. put up    B. go back     C. run away      D. run out of

（   ）7. A. different    B. the same     C. difficult    D. simple

（   ）8. A. pleased   B. happy     C. worried D. angry

（   ）9. A. ended    B. lasted     C. began   D. kept

（   ）10. A. what    B. how      C. that    D. it

B