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(1) My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Carraways are someth
(1) My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Carraways are someth
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(1) My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
(2) I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father’s office. I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless. Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why-yees" with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
(3) The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone. I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
(4) It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
(5) "How do you get to West Egg village?" he asked helplessly.
(6) I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.
(7) And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
(8) There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air. I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew. (本文选自 The Great Gatsby)
The first paragraph claims the following EXCEPT________.
选项
A、the writer was born in a rich and well-known family
B、the Carraways are believed to be a duke’s descendants
C、the writer’s grandfather fought in the Civil War in 1851
D、the writer’s father continues the wholesale hardware business
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干定位到原文第一段。本段第二句提到,祖父的哥哥在1851年找了个替身代他去参加南北战争,并非作者的祖父,故本题答案为C。本段第一句提到,“我”家三代以来都是这个中西部城市家道殷实的头面人物,由此可知,A的说法正确,可以排除;本段第二句提到,卡罗威一家据说是巴克勒公爵的后裔,故B的说法正确,可以排除;本段第二句提到,祖父的兄弟从事五金批发生意,如今由“我”的父亲继续经营,故D的说法正确,可以排除。
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