首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Except at night, they hardly ever have time together. He often sits alone in the house waiting for Julie-Julie to come home. It
Except at night, they hardly ever have time together. He often sits alone in the house waiting for Julie-Julie to come home. It
admin
2009-08-13
73
问题
Except at night, they hardly ever have time together. He often sits alone in the house waiting for Julie-Julie to come home. It would be nice to have kids to play with when one comes home from work. But, Oh, the house is too small, Kappy-Pappy dear. We need to save and move to a bigger place before we can start a family.
Kapsak never understands that. What does a big house have to do with having children? When he and Eka Udo had children, did they have a big house? But they died, didn’t they? And the doctor later said something about cramped living conditions making it easy for malaria to virtually wipe out his family. So maybe Julie-Julie has a point. All his children had died because of being cooped up in one room. All except Udo. Udo Kapsak would not ordinarily admit it but the truth is he misses the boy so much. Udo’s full-faced smile. His quirky-chirpy ways. His innocent probing manner. Oh Udo! He’ll be approaching five now. Five! A big baby!
Sighing noisily, Kapsak tries to put thoughts of his son out of his mind. He has not seen the boy in over three years. And maybe he has gone the way his brother and sisters went. No. Not likely. Awadamoto would have told him. Awadamoto. It’s been a long time since Kapsak saw him.
Throwing on a shirt, Kapsak hurries off to the taxi rank in the business district. "Kapsak, Kapsak!" Awadamoto cheers as his childhood friend approaches. "Awadamoto! You have abandoned me!" "Use that word lightly, Kapsak. You know who has done the most abandoning between me and you." "But Awad, we live here in town together." "Blame that wife of yours. I did not go to school and I don’t like going near people who make me remember that all the time." Kapsak has it in mind to say something good about his wife, but something else jumps to his mouth.
"Come Awad, what is Gestapo?" "Gestapo?" "No, Gestapo." "Man, I don’t know. Where did you hear it?" "Eh, I heard it somewhere. How is the village?" "Exactly as you left it." "And... " "Eka Udo?" "Yes. How is she?" "How does it concern you? Anyway, I heard some big chief from her mother’s village has taken her for his third wife." "What of my son? Is it well with him?" "You would have known if you had bothered to go and check on him. Look, it’s my turn. "Bawling out to passengers to climb into his ramshackle taxi, Awadamoto ambles off.
It is pouring heavily when Julie-Julie returns. Outside, it is rain. Inside, it is confusion. Kapsak is at first happy to see her back safely. Then his happiness turns to anger as she carries on about what an exciting time she had. Finally his anger succumbs to her gentle caresses and passion rules their world. Julie-Julie shoots out at first light. "I’ve got to see someone urgently, Kappy-Pappy. "Kappy-Pappy, that is my name now, Kapsak laughs to himself as he shuffles off to the construction site where he manages to earn a few bucks. On his way into the main yard, he ducks out of the way of a fast-moving four-wheel drive vehicle driven by an expatriate. Cursing lightly, he looks back to see the driver locked in a passionate kiss with a woman with luxuriant hair.
"No wonder he nearly killed me!" Kapsak spits out. "Early morning and he’s already..."
His mouth remains open but the words dry up. like the water taps of the city. The woman with the expatriate turns momentarily, perhaps to pick up something from the backseat. In that instant, Kapsak sees clearly the woman for whom he had left his first wife and forsaken his family and people.
But he does not see the earthmover in front of him. Neither does he hear its powerful horns. And the driver of the earthmover does not see Kapsak. By the time someone notices the crushed figure lying by the roadside, a blackening pool of blood has begun to seep into the earth.
选项
A、died of a constant headache.
B、died from a traffic accident.
C、died of an infectious malady.
D、died from goods famine.
答案
C
解析
本题是细节题。根据题干中的doctor及Kapsak and Eka Udo定位至第二段,第五句指出:the doctor later said something about cramped living conditions making it easy for malaria to virtually wipe out his family.这里明确提到他的孩子死亡的原因是malaria(疟疾),故[C]为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1bvO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
TheAlaskaGovernorhastakenthefollowingstepsinresponsetothePrudhoeBayoilfieldshutdownEXCEPT.
WhatistheattitudeofBritishtowardsthefinancial-transactionstax?
Theeconomyurgesthegovernmenttotakemeasurestocountertheinflationandloweringsalaries.
Theeconomyurgesthegovernmenttotakemeasurestocountertheinflationandloweringsalaries.
随着今天伦敦市场的股价暴跌,华尔街也遭受了巨大损失,现存的金融银行的股价跌得最为厉害。“shareprice”股价;这句话里基本没有陌生单词。听的时候只要抓住关键词“shareprices”,“LondonMarket”,“fallensharpl
Whenprehistoricmanarrivedinnewpartsoftheworld,somethingstrangehappenedtothelargeanimals:theysuddenlybecameex
A、Theassignmentisboring.B、Theclasswascanceled.C、Dr.Hardlyphonedtheclassmembers.D、Dr.Hardlyistakingoverthiswe
有时候发生在你身上的一些事情起初看起来很可怕、很痛苦、很不公平,但是深思熟虑之后你会发现,如果没有克服过这些困难,你就永远不会意识到自己的潜力、实力、毅力和勇气。疾病、伤害、错失真正伟大的时刻以及极度愚蠢的言行,所有这些事情的出现都是在考验你灵魂的极限。无
WhathappenedtothefourremaininglawyersafterPatrick’sdisappearance?Whichofthefollowingimpliesacontrast?
随机试题
正常情况下,颈动脉窦压力感受性反射的敏感性最高的血压范围是()。
对软骨膜的描述,哪一项错误()
为羊水量过多患者进行腹腔穿刺放羊水时,一次放水量不超过
按照《建设工程质量管理条例》的规定,设计单位的质量责任和义务有()。
在正向市场上,只要基差变大,无论期货、现货价格是上升还是下降,买入套期保值者都不可能得到完全保护。()
职工个人缴存的住房公积金和职工所在单位为职工缴存的住房公积金,属于()所有。
根据《中华人民共和国物权法》,建筑物区分所有权是业主对物业专有部分分享专有所有权,对共有部分享有共有和()的权利。
菏泽被誉为“牡丹之乡”、“戏曲之乡”、“武术之乡”、“书画之乡”。()
中国国家博物馆正对大门的浮雕,体现了中华民族百折不挠的精神,浮雕内容()
非齐次线性方程组AX=b中未知量个数为n,方程个数为m,系数矩阵A的秩为r,则().
最新回复
(
0
)