2015年12月份的四六级考试还离我们比较远，但听力部分一直以来都是同学们考试时的难点，也是吐槽最多的部分。想要早点为下半年的四六级考试做准备就来练习一下英语四级听力 题吧。

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　　Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the finalsurrender of the armies of the Confederacy. AConfederate sympathizer shot the president atFord's Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865.

　　By that time, howeveAbraham Lincoln did not live tosee the final surrender of the armies of theConfederacy. A Confederate sympathizer shot thepresident at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April14, 1865.r, the American Civil War was over.

　　General Robert E. Lee surrendered in early April, bringing an end to four years of fighting.Several other Confederate armies were still in the field. But they were too small and too weak tocontinue the fight.

　　One by one, the remaining armies surrendered. The soldiers began returning home.

　　Late in May, 150,000 Union soldiers, representing every one of the Union armies, came toWashington. They came to take part in a victory march through the city.

　　For two days, the soldiers marched past the White House. Many of the men had fought at BullRun, Antietam, Gettysburg and Appomattox. Sherman's western army was there from battlesat Shiloh and Atlanta.

　　The soldiers marched proudly past the new president, Andrew Johnson, and other governmentleaders.

　　Finally, the last group of soldiers passed the White House. The grand parade was over. Thebattle flags were put away, and the marching bands fell silent. The war was ended. Now, peoplecould look about them and count the cost of the war.

　　Four years of bloody fighting had saved the Union of states. The northern victory had decidedthat states could not leave the Union. And it had put to rest the great problem of slavery, whichhad troubled the nation for so many years.

　　But the costs were great. More than 600,000 men of the North and South lost their lives.Hundreds of thousands more were wounded. Many had lost their arms or legs.

　　The war cost the North over 3 billion dollars. The war was almost as costly to theConfederates. Most of the war was fought in the southern states. And most of the war damagewas there.

　　Some towns and cities -- including Atlanta -- were completely destroyed. The damage outsidethe populated areas was almost as great. Union armies had marched across the South, leavingbehind them widespread destruction. Farm houses and buildings had been burned; animalsand crops seized or destroyed.

　　There was also the question of the four million former slaves. They were free now. But theyneeded jobs and training. Once again, the American people debated the best plan for movingthe country forward.

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