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
专升本
Fire and Water Shundagarh is a village on India’s east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on
Fire and Water Shundagarh is a village on India’s east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on
admin
2011-07-31
33
问题
Fire and Water
Shundagarh is a village on India’s east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on the beach just above the water-line. The Khadra Hills rise immediately behind the village, to a height of one hundred and fifty meters. A simple, good-hearted old man, whose name was Jalpur, farmed two small fields on the very edge of these hills, overlooking Shundagarh. From his fields he could see the fishing-boats that travelled up and down the coast. He could see the children playing on the sand; their mothers washing clothes on the flat stones where the Shiva River flowed into the sea; and their fathers landing the latest catch or repairing nets and telling stories that had no end.
All Jalpur owned in the world were the clothes he wore day in and day out, the miserable hut that he slept in at night, a few tools and cooking pots—and his fields. The corn that he grew was all that made life possible. If the weather was kind and the harvest was good, Jalpur could live happily enough—not well, but happily. When the sun was fierce, and there was little or no rain, then he came close to the line between a life which was too hard, and death itself.
Last year the weather had been so kind, and the harvest promised to be so good, that Jalpur had been wondering whether he could sell all that he had and live with his son farther up the coast. He had been thinking about doing this for some years. It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife and children. But he would go only if he could give; he would not go if it meant taking food out of the mouths of his grandchildren. He would rather die hungry than do this.
On the day on which Jalpur decided that he would harvest his corn, sell it, and move up the coast, he looked out to the sea and saw a huge wave, several kilometres out, advancing on the coast and on the village of Shundagarh. Within ten minutes everyone in Shundagarh would be drowned. Jalpur would have shouted, but the people were too far away to hear. He would have run down the hill, but he was too old to run. He was prepared to do anything to save the people of Shundagarh, so he did the only thing that he could do: he set fire to his corn. In a matter of seconds the flames were rising high and smoke was rising higher. Within a minute the people of Shundagarh were racing up the hill to see what had happened. There, in the middle of his blackened cornfield, they found Jalpur; and there they buried him.
On his grave, they wrote the words: Here lies Jalpur, a man who gave, living; a man who died, giving.
It was Jalpur’s ambition to______.
选项
A、live an easy life in the village of Shundagarh
B、sell his corn and go to live with his son and his family
C、live farther along the coast where the weather was kinder
D、spend a few days with his wife and son on the coast
答案
B
解析
本题问Julpur的愿望(ambition)是什么。答案从第三段中Jalpur had been wondering whether he could sell all that he had and live with his son farther up the coast和It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife and children这两句里可以得出。这句里 his wife and children中的his指的是“他儿子的”。因此选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/78lC777K
本试题收录于:
英语题库成考专升本分类
0
英语
成考专升本
相关试题推荐
Peopleenjoytalkingabout"first".Theyliketoremembertheirfirstloveortheirfirstcar.Butnotallfirstsarehappyones
Little______thattheirplanhasbeendiscovered.
Idisagreedfundamentallywithwhatthesign______.
Withthehospitality(热情好客)so______(character)ofthesepeople,theyopenedtheirhouseoverfiftyguests.
Bobneedsatutorbecauseitisimportant______onhisexamnextmonth.
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopic:ALetterofApplication.Youshouldwriteatleas
Thepassagesuggeststhat______.Accordingtothepassage,theproblemofcollegeeducationpartlyarisesfromthefactthat_
It______thevillagewherewespentourholidayslastsummer.
Thesearchwas______whenthefoggotthicker.
Generally,thethickeramammal’s(哺乳动物)skinis,thelesshair
随机试题
党在过渡时期总路线的主体是实现
A.尿沉渣镜检有大量变形红细胞B.尿沉渣镜检有多个嗜酸粒细胞C.两者皆有D.两者皆无肾小球肾炎
某家庭计划5年后购买一套120m2的新建住房,该家庭目前及未来5年的财务状况如下:(1)目前已准备用于购房的积蓄共50万元;(2)该家庭月工资收入为12000元,预计将以每月0.5%的比例递增,该收入的50%储蓄用于购房;(3)该家庭另有一套房产出租
下列关于曲面方程的结论中,错误的是()。
A注册会计师负责对甲公司财务报表进行审计。在确定对项目组成员指导、监督与复核的性质、时间和范围时,应当考虑的主要因素是()。
在中国共产党的历史上,第一次鲜明地提}}1“马克思主义中国化”的命题和任务的会议是
服务质量(QoS)是()。
Decisionscanbemadequickly,ortheycanbemadeaftercarefulthought.Doyouagreeordisagreewiththefollowingstatement?
Ateamofworld-leadingneuro-scientistshasdevelopedapowerfultechniquethatallowsthemtolookdeepinsideaperson’sbrai
CharlesDickenswasafamousnineteenth-centurywriterandthesignature"CharlesDickens"israrityenoughtocommandaprice.
最新回复
(
0
)