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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 writer’s relatives felt________about his decision to go east.
选项
A、enthusiastiC
B、indifferent
C、worried
D、ambivalent
答案
C
解析
态度题。根据题干中的relatives和go east定位到原文第二段。本段第六句提到,对于“我”要去东部学习债券的决定,家人像帮“我”挑选预科学校一样慎重,表情严肃而又犹豫。由此可知,家人对“我”去东部感到担心。所以本题答案为C。
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