Dec. 24, 1848
Dear Johnston,
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好閑). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.
This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.
You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.
Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.
Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.
Affectionately
Your brother
A. Lincoln
小題1:Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.
A．show his concern for himB．recommend him to save money
C．decline his request and motivate himD．introduce him a new job
小題2:What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?
A．He was very lazy. B．He wasted time a lot.
C．He couldn’t get much from work.D．He disliked working.
小題3:In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.
A．keep himself from getting into troubleB．go to work hard for somebody
C．manage well the things at home D．keep the children out of the idle habit
小題4:If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.
A．reward him with laborB．pay off his debt
C．hire him at 10 dollars a month D．give him another dollar
小題5:In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.
A．take away his place in HeavenB．deed Lincoln the land
C．live without the land D．do good work every day

小題1:C
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