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Visitors to St. Paul Cathedral are sometimes astonished as they walk round the space under the arch to come up a statue which wo
Visitors to St. Paul Cathedral are sometimes astonished as they walk round the space under the arch to come up a statue which wo
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2010-05-25
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问题
Visitors to St. Paul Cathedral are sometimes astonished as they walk round the space under the arch to come up a statue which would appear to be that of a retired armed man meditating upon a wasted life. They are still mare astonished when they see under it an inscription indicating that it represents the English writer, Samuel Johnson. The statue is by Bacon, but it is not one of his best works. The figure is, as often in eighteenth-century sculpture, clothed only in a loose robe that leaves arms, legs and one shoulder bare. But the strangeness for us is not one of costume only. If we know anything of Johnson, we know that he was constantly iii all through his life; and whether we know anything of him or not we are apt to think of a literary man as a delicate, weakly, nervous sort of person. Nothing can be further from that than the muscular statue. And in this matter the statue is perfectly right. And the fact which it reports is far from being unimportant.
The body and the mind are closely interwoven in ail of us, and certainly in Johnson’s case the influence of the body was extremely oblivious. His melancholy, his constantly repeated conviction of the general unhappiness of human life, was certainly the result of his constitutional infirmities. On the other hand, his courage, and his entire indifference to pain, was partly due to his great bodily strength. Perhaps the vein of rudeness, almost of fierceness, which sometimes showed itself in his conversation, was the natural temper of an invalid and suffering giant. That at any rate is what he was. He was the victim from childhood of a disease that resembled St. Vitus’s dance. He never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked it was like the struggling walk of one in irons. All accounts agree that his strange gestures and contortions were painful for his friends to witness and attracted crows of starters in the streets.
But Reynolds says that he could sit still for his portrait to be taken, and that when his mind was engaged by a conversation the convulsions ceased. In any ease, it is certain that neither this perpetual misery, nor his constant fear of losing his reason, nor his many grave attacks of illness, ever induced him to surrender the privileges that belonged to his physical strength~. He justly thought no character so disagreeable as that of a chronic invalid, and was determined not to be one himself. He had known what it was to live on four pence a day and scorned the life of sofa cushions and tea into which well-attended old gentlemen so easily slip.
According to the passage, which is NOT true to Johnson?
选项
A、He once did not have enough money to live on.
B、He lived singly in the past.
C、He was a littlie cynical.
D、He received little care from his friends.
答案
D
解析
综合推断题。根据文章倒数第二句话,我们知道“He justly thought no character so disagreeable as that of a chronic invalid, and was determined not to be one himself”,他很有自知之明地认识到,没有谁会像一个慢性病人那样的废物令人生厌,所以决定不让自己成为这样一个拖油瓶;并且根据最后一句“to live on four pence a day”,每天生活开支仅仅四美分,可以看出他以前是一个人生活,这种窘境也证实了选项A 。根据“scorned the life of sofa cushions and tea...”可以排除 C ;而根据文章第二段最后一句“his strange gestures and contortions were painful for his friends to witness”,我们推知朋友还是很关心他的,所以选D 。
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