SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

                I have a story to share with. Last week I took my five-year old son, Willy, to a musical instrument store in my hometown. I wanted to buy him a set of junior drum because his drum teacher advised me to buy him one. Willy likes listening to music very much. He also likes asking me everything he wants to know. Evan his questions sometimes seem precocious for a boy of his age. He is very inquisitive.

                We went there by car. On the way, we saw a policeman standing near traffic light regulating the passing cars and other vehicles he blew his whistle now and then.

                Seeing the policeman blowing whistle, Willy asked me at once, “Dad why is the policeman using a whistle, not drum?”

                Hearing his unexpected question, I answered reluctantly, “Because he is not Phil Collins.”

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                It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph as I always did before I went to sleep. I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheeks. How different he looked!

                That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that the grow whiskers.

                Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

                “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I had no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

                My name Grace Bedell and the man in photograph was Abraham Lincoln.