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In the lumberyard by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick
In the lumberyard by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick
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2013-02-03
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In the lumberyard by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick building two floors high, and all around the outside walls were heaped great piles of soft sawdust. There were many of these golden mountains of dust covering that part of the yard right down to the blue lake. That afternoon, bored with having nothing else to do, all the fellows followed Michael up the ladder to the roof of the old building and they sat with their legs hanging over the edge looking out across the lake. Suddenly Michael said, "I dare you to jump down," and without thinking about it, he pushed himself off the roof and fell on the sawdust where he lay rolling around and laughing. "I dare you all!" he shouted. "You’re all cowards," he said, encouraging them to follow him. Still laughing, he watched them looking down from the roof, white-faced and hesitant, and then one by one they jumped and got up grinning with relief.
In the hot afternoon sunlight they all lay on the sawdust pile telling jokes till at last one of the fellows said, "Come on up on the old roof again and jump down." There wasn’t much enthusiasm among them, but they all went up to the roof again and began to jump off in a determined, desperate way till only Michael was left and the others were all down below grinning up at him calling, "Come on, Mike. What’s the matter with you?" Michael wanted to jump down there and be with them, but he remained on the edge of the roof, wetting his tips, with a silly grin on his face, wondering why it had not seemed such a long drop the first time. For a while they thought he was only fooling them, but then they saw him clenching his fists tight. He was trying to count to ten and then jump, and when that failed, he tried to take a long breath and close his eyes. In a while the fellows began to laugh at him; they were tired of waiting and it was getting on to dinnertime. "Come on, you’re a coward, do you think we’re going to sit here all night?" they began to shout, and when he did not move they began to get up and walk away, still shouting. "Who did this in the first place? What’s the matter with you all?" he called.
But for a long time he remained on the edge of the roof, staring unhappily and steadily at the ground. He remained all alone for nearly an hour while the sun, like a great orange ball getting bigger and bigger, rolled slowly over the grey line beyond the lake. His clothes were wet from nervous sweating. At last he closed his eyes, slipped off the roof, fell heavily on the pile of sawdust and lay there a long time. There were no sounds in the yard, the workmen had gone home. As he lay there he wondered why he had been unable to jump; and then he got up slowly and walked home feeling deeply ashamed and wanting to avoid everybody.
Why didn’t Michael make the second jump immediately?
选项
A、The ground seemed further away.
B、He thought his friends had been foolish.
C、He was trying to trick his friends.
D、He wanted his friends to go away.
答案
A
解析
第二段讲道Michael在第二次往下跳前wondering why it had not seemed such a long drop the first time,第一次跳的时候怎么没觉得这么高呢?所以答案为A。
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