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
Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she ha
Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she ha
admin
2010-03-25
48
问题
Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she had kept a scrapbook. It was delivered to me inside an old chest of drawers left by my father, who survived her by 18 years. The drawers were stuffed with memories and junk. his legal papers, his beloved mandolin sheet music, his college yearbooks and, in among some old photographs, a battered, yellowing composition notebook—a scrapbook kept by my mother for a short time in 1934. I was shocked.
My mother was a thrower-outer—the scourge of packed closets, the emptier of overfilled drawers. I was a bringer-backer. We once clashed over my cherished tennis shoes, which she mistakenly took to the garbage simply because I was stuffing cardboard in the soles to plug the holes. I had to rescue them twice.
Ours was a fundamental clash in human nature, surely as old as the species itself. Some of our hominid ancestors were gatherers who also picked up bright pebbles; others were hunters of clutter who demanded. "Can’t we get rid of some of this stuff?" From those who amassed, we have museums, libraries, attics that groan. From the winnowers, we have public sanitation, rarity (if everything were saved, nothing would be rare) and a way to the front door.
The author’s mother
选项
A、deceased in 1934.
B、scoured closets.
C、cherished shoes.
D、saved mementos.
答案
D
解析
A说作者的母亲死于1934年,这在文章中没有证据,1934年是作者的母亲保存剪贴本的时间。文中没有提到她的去世具体时间。B说她擦拭壁橱,这实际上是对"the scourge of packed closets"的误解,这里的scourge,不是指擦拭,而是作者夸张地把她母亲称作为“给挤满东西的壁橱带来麻烦的人”,意思是只要壁橱里有东西,她母亲就会翻箱倒柜地进行清除。C说她母亲爱护鞋子,事实上文章中只提到她把孩子的鞋子扔掉的事,而没有讲到过她是否爱护鞋子。D说她曾保存过纪念物,这与她保存过剪贴本的事实相仿。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/9PqO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Weallhaveproblemsandbarriersthatblockourprogressorpreventusfrommovingintonewareas.Ourproblemsmightincludet
Weallhaveproblemsandbarriersthatblockourprogressorpreventusfrommovingintonewareas.Ourproblemsmightincludet
NapoleonfamouslydescribedtheBritishasanationofshopkeepers.Thesedaysitwouldbeequallytruetodescribethemasana
Afteracenturyandahalfascordialneighbors,twoofthenation’sbiggestranchesfindthemselvesfeudingliketheHatfields
中国经济的迅速兴起是我们这个时代的伟大成就之一。中国的日益繁荣不仅大大地造福于中国人民,也造福于中国在世界各地的贸易伙伴。中国已体验到经济自由给国家带来的财富。中国经济自由的发展使人们有理由期待社会、政治及宗教自由的发展。从长远来讲,这些自由是不可分割的。
Theterm"Americandream"wasfirstusedin【B1】______inanovelwrittenbyHoratioAlger:RaggedDick.Themessagewas:Nomatte
我觉得我的条件正符合你们的工作描述。从我的简历中你可以看到我有一份证实我在解决问题、进行多重任务工作和处理顾客问题方面能力的证明资料。除了我们刚才讨论过的技能和经历之外,我是一个工作非常努力的人;我工作认真,而且很有方法;能与大家相处得非常好,而且我学得很
ThelawfirmPatrickworkedforbeforehediedfiledforbankruptcyprotectionayearafterhisfuneral.Afterhisdeath,thefi
On______,1776,theCongressadoptedtheDeclarationofIndependence.
BritainThemajorityofBritishpeopleworkin【1】industries.About20%workin【2】and5%inconstruction.Do-It-Yourself,orD
随机试题
A硫氰酸铵B硫酸C硫代乙酰胺D二乙基二硫代氨基甲酸银E硝酸银检查以下杂质应使用的试剂是砷盐
与系统性红斑狼疮发病相关的是
A.唾石B.血石C.垂直型食物嵌塞D.牙合创伤E.创伤拾
以下药材来源于伞形科,主成分为挥发油
设n阶矩阵A可逆,α是A的属于特征值λ的特征向量,则下列结论中不正确的是()。
某公司的预期年收益额为32万元,该企业的各单项资产的重估价值之和为120万元,企业所在行业的平均收益率为20%,以此作为本金化率计算出的商誉的价值为()万元。
下列关于非财务指标表述正确的有()。
教育法与教育政策的区别是()。
“在一个星期内读完《红楼梦》,讨论时列出让你印象最深刻的三件事情。”这样的教学目标属于()
Ifyou’vegotanearforlanguages,askillofcodingorasteadyhandanddon’tfaintatthesightofbloodthenyourcareerlo
最新回复
(
0
)