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How to Face Distress and Frustration Thirty years ago, Hugues de Mon-talembert was enjoying life in New York City as a paint

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问题                     How to Face Distress and Frustration
    Thirty years ago, Hugues de Mon-talembert was enjoying life in New York City as a painter and a filmmaker when he burst in on two thieves trashing his apartment. One of them threw paint remover in his face. By the next morning, the 35-year-old artist was totally blind. He plunged as deeply into despair as he did into the darkness that greeted him each morning when he awoke in the hospital after dreaming that he could see. When his mother wanted to rush from France to his bedside, he said no—he knew he would end up consoling (安慰) her. "People hate tragedy. "He writes simply. Yet those he didn’t know—doctors, nurses, other patients—would talk to him, often confiding intimate details of their lives. He realized it was because they knew he couldn’t see them. They would be as anonymous as if he were a priest (牧师) in a darkened confessional.
    What’s inspiring—he would hate that word, too—is how ferociously de Montalem-bert leapt back into the world, a world made more enormous by his blindness. He forced himself to journey solo to Bali, a place he had loved when he could see. Later he went alone to India, including a trek to the Himalayas, in pursuit of a ballerina (芭蕾舞女) with whom he’d fallen in love. Love wasn’t just a consolation but the act that reignited (重新激起) the idea of being alive. Still, he had to face what was lost.
    De Montalembert is clear about the good fortune in his life. He lives in Paris, Denmark, and Majorca. He writes and has a host of internal friendships. "The fact that I lost my sight is very spectacular," he says, "but there are things which are much more terrible." In Paris one day, a Cambodian taxi driver extended his sympathy for de Monta-lembert’s obvious plight (困境). The author thanked him but remarked that there were "people much more wounded than me". The cabbie was silent and then said that his wife and children had been killed before his eyes in Cambodia. "So there he was,"the author writes, "driving his cab in Paris with this huge wound that noboby could see. " Except, of course, for the man who was blind.
Why does the author say "he would hate that word" in the second paragraph?
选项 A、Although he leapt back to society, yet his being blind was still a misfortune.
B、He completely lost the courage to live on, and therefore, hated those words like "inspiring".
C、He felt disappointed and discouraged in the pursuit of a ballerina, and became hopeless.
D、Because he could not see the place he loved again and became ferocious.
答案A
解析 语义理解题。根据题干提示定位到文章第二段第一句：What’s inspiring一he would hate that word，too—is how ferociously de Montalembert leapt back into the world。根据下文可知，本段介绍了de Montalembert在遭受失明之后如何振作起来。而在第一段第六句作者提到People hate tragedy，说明de Montalembert意识到自己失明是个悲剧，尽管能够从中振作起来，但那将仍然是悲剧，没有人会喜欢。[B]与下文矛盾，下文介绍了deMontalembert是如何振作起来，重新开始生活的；[C]、[D]在这里构不成因果关系。
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