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
"It’s five miles; and as you’re evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know abo
"It’s five miles; and as you’re evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know abo
admin
2012-05-04
85
问题
"It’s five miles; and as you’re evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know about yourself. "
"Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling," said Anne eagerly. "If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting. "
"No, I don’t want any of your imaginings. Just you stick to bald facts. Begin at the beginning. Where were you born and how old are you?"
"I was eleven last March," said Anne, resigning herself to bald facts with a little sigh. "And I was born in Bolingbroke. My father’s name was Walter Jerry, and he was a teacher in the Bolingbroke High School. My mother’s name was Bertha Jerry. I’m so glad my parents had nice names. "
"I guess it doesn’t matter what a person’s name is as long as he behaves himself," said Marilla, feeling herself called upon to inculcate a good and useful moral.
"Well, my mother was a teacher in the high school, too, but when she married father she gave up teaching, of course. A husband was enough responsibility. Mrs. Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice. They went to live in a weeny-teeny little yellow house in Bolingbroke. I’ve never seen that house, but I’ve imagined it thousands of times. I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate. Yes, and muslin curtains in all the windows. I was born in that house. Mrs. Thomas said I was the homeliest baby she ever saw, I was so scrawny and tiny and nothing but eyes, but that mother thought I was perfectly beautiful. She died of fever when I was just three months old. I do wish she’d lived long enough for me to remember calling her mother. I think it would be so sweet to say ’mother’, don’t you? And father died four days afterwards from fever too. That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits’ end, so Mrs. Thomas said, what to do with me. You see, nobody wanted me even then. It seems to be my fate. Father and mother had both come from places far away and it was well known they hadn’t any relatives living. Finally Mrs. Thomas said she’d take me, though she was poor and had a drunken husband. She brought me up by hand. "
"Mr. and Mrs. Thomas moved away from Bolingbroke to Marysville, and I lived with them until 1 was eight years old. Then Mr. Thomas was killed falling under a train and his mother offered to take Mrs. Thomas and the children, but she didn’t want me. Mrs. Thomas was at her wits’ end, so she said, what to do with me. Then Mrs. Hammond from up the river came down and said she’d take me, seeing I was handy with children, and 1 went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps. I lived up river with Mrs. Hammond over two years, and then Mr. Hammond died and Mrs. Hammond broke up housekeeping. She divided her children among her relatives and went to the States. I had to go to the asylum, because nobody would take me. They didn’t want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was. But they had to take me and I was there four months until Mrs. Spencer came. "
Anne finished up with another sigh, of relief this time. Evidently she did not like talking about her experiences in a world that had not wanted her.
"Were those women—Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Hammond—good to you?" asked Marilla, looking at Anne out of the corner of her eye.
"O-o-o-h," faltered Anne. Her sensitive little face suddenly flushed scarlet and embarrassment sat on her brow. "Oh, they MEANT to be—I know they meant to be just as good and kind as possible. And when people mean to be good to you, you don’t mind very much when they’re not quite—always. They had a good deal to worry them, you know. It’s very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don’t you think? But I feel sure they meant to be good to me. "
Which of the following is UNTRUE about Anne’s parents?
选项
A、They were both teachers.
B、They used to live in poverty.
C、They died of fever when Anne was very young.
D、They lived far away from their hometown.
答案
B
解析
细节题。第六段中的Mrs.Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice是指安妮家庭非常贫困,as poor as church mice这一习语意为一贫如洗,B项是对这个表达的误读,其他三项可以在这段安妮的讲述中得知,故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EFmK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Therewillbegreatdemandonyoureffortsbeforeyoureachthe______oftherace.
Nancybecameataxidriverbecause
IntheUnitedStates,olderpeoplerarelylivewiththeiradultchildren.Butinmanyothercultureschildrenareexpectedtoca
Thelurestartedonthefirstfloorofthehospital,______areelderlyandweak.
ComeSeptember,thecampusesofAmericawillbeswarmingnotjustwithreturningundergraduates,butalsowithemployersseton
Likeland,laborismeansofproduction.Innon-industrialsocieties,accesstobothlandandlaborcomesthroughsociallinkss
______isgenerallyaccepted,economicalgrowthisdeterminedbythesmoothdevelopmentofproduction.
Whatwasthewheatproductionlastyear?
IntermsoftheevolutionoflifeonEarth,humanbeingshavejustarrived.【C1】______theirshorttimeonEarth,however,peopl
WhatisthefopicofthebillintheUSSenate?
随机试题
Ifyoutravelaroundtheworld,youwillbesurprisedtofindthatforeigncustomscanbedifferent【C1】______yourown.Avisitor
患者,男性,30岁,有吸毒史(注射)。近半年来体重减轻,发烧,口腔反复发生真菌感染。首先考虑为AIDS。首先应使用药物治疗的是()
(2007年)开展价值工程活动的目的是()。
国际服务贸易
2005年3月,甲公司与乙公司签订的租赁合同约定:甲公司将其面积为500平方米的办公用房出租给乙公司;租期25年;租金每月1万元,以每年官方公布的通货膨胀率为标准逐年调整;乙公司应一次性支付两年的租金。合同签订后,乙公司依约支付租金,甲公司依约交付了该房
行政法规规定,有限责任公司必须报经批准的,应当自批准之日起()天内向公司登记机关申请设立登记。
“精简、统一、效能”原则,是党和国家对机构编制工作的一贯要求,精简与效能原则的含义不包括()。
为什么阿基里斯追不上乌龟,但罗素却能由“2+2=5”推出“罗素是教皇”呢?根据材料分析人在认识活动中应该注意哪些问题?
如果要在整个报表的最后输出信息,需要设置
Thedriver______thepassengersoffatthesupermarketandthenwenttothenextstop.
最新回复
(
0
)