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
In the days before Diana became accustomed to daily hairdressers, high fashion and expertly applied makeup, she looked her best
In the days before Diana became accustomed to daily hairdressers, high fashion and expertly applied makeup, she looked her best
admin
2010-06-18
47
问题
In the days before Diana became accustomed to daily hairdressers, high fashion and expertly applied makeup, she looked her best when she was wearing her least. No frilly blouses concealed her elegant neck, carefully cut skirts her long legs, or bulky sweaters her well-rounded figure. She was young and not fully aware of just how attractive she could be. But if she wanted to impress a young man, any young man, she always made it a point to go swimming or sailing or, at the very least, play a game of tennis.
When Prince Charles saw her aboard Britannia at Cowes in the late summer of 1980, he wasn’t however particularly interested. She belonged to his younger brother Andrew’s set, and had come aboard, not at Chariest s invitation, but with Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, his cousin and sixteen years his junior.
Diana was three years older than Sarah, but still almost a generation away. And besides, Charles had his mind on other things—most particularly the breakup of his romance with the beautiful but self-willed Anna Wallace. There was also the fact that if he noticed Diana in anything more than passing, he thought about her as the sister of one of his former girlfriends—Lady Sarah Spencer—who had recently married (he hadn’t attended), and whatever others might have been plotting he most certainly was not thinking of renewing his romantic links with the Spencer girls.
But if Charles was not instantly enchanted by the fresh, gambolling nineteen-year-old who spent some days aboard the Royal Yacht, his staff were. "She was so unassuming and so natural,’ one recalls. And in the manner of all servants, particularly ones who are in the employ of the bachelor Prince, they inevitably started speculating amongst themselves if she was the one for what they called "the job".
So, it seems, did Diana. At the age of sixteen she had jokingly told a friend that she was "out to get’ Charles. But that may have been just romantic fantasizing on the part of a young girl whose main reading was the soapy romances penned by her step-grandmother, the redoubtable Barbara Cartland. The Prince’s late valet, Stephen Barry; insisted however: "She went after the Prince with single-minded determination. She wanted him—and she got him!"
She had, of course, met him many times before in the years of her childhood spent as a near-neighbour of the Windsors at Sandringham when Charles used to pop his head round the nursery door where she was having tea with Andrew and Edward, or during a shooting party on Sandringham Estate where at the age of sixteen she was reintroduced to him by her sister Sarah. More recently she had encountered him at polo. But then he had always been busy or with a girlfriend in tow. This time he was alone.
She made sure Charles was watching when she bravely followed his example and went windsurfing in the ehoppy and not-too-warm waters of the Solent. Naturally flirtatious, she made sure he noticed her long slim legs and trim figure. And he could not fail but start to take an interest—if only a comparative one—in the beautiful younger sister of a former girlfriend.
Accounts of this first meeting vary. Some claim that it is where the famous romance began. Others insist that his interest was but a mild one; that with Anna still in mind, the timing was wrong and he simply regarded her as a new and pretty addition to his surprisingly limited circle of friends.
But she had certainly impressed him enough for him to invite her up to Balmoral shortly afterwards. Diana accepted with alacrity.
Which of the following is NOT true?
选项
A、Charles had very few friends.
B、The meeting aboard the ship was their first.
C、Diana went after Charles with determination.
D、Charles took an interest in Diana aboard the ship.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/KXlO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
TheNationalAssociationfortheAdvancementofColoredPeoplemovedquicklyinApriltocancelplanstobestowalifetimeachie
A、Thebusinessisestablishedinallmajorworldmarkets.B、Thebrandnameornamesareinternational.C、Thebusinesshasaglob
A、Icecreams.B、Alcoholicdrinks.C、Fashionshows.D、Polarlights.D
ForyearswehavebeentalkingaboutaddictiontotheInternet,andthentothemobilephone.ArecentsurveyinUKfoundthat_
ForyearswehavebeentalkingaboutaddictiontotheInternet,andthentothemobilephone.ArecentsurveyinUKfoundthat_
A、Youcanalwaysgetitifyouask.B、Youneedtothinktwicebeforemakingaswitch.C、Bereadytotakerisksandleaveyourco
Inourlooks-obsessedsociety,manypeoplethinkthatbeingoverweightisanappearanceissue.Butbeingoverweightisactually
TheattitudeheldbytheassuredtowardslanguageisTheanxiousareconsideredalessfortunategroupbecause
WhowerethenativesofAustraliabeforethearrivaloftheBritishsettlers?
Toseehowbigcarrierscouldcontroltheonlineworld,youmustunderstanditsstructures.EarthlinkgivesJenniferaccesst
随机试题
油井实施堵水措施后,若产量及动液面较低,示功图呈严重供液不足,需调小()。
A.寒积便秘B.热积便秘C.阳虚便秘D.肠燥便秘E.虫积便秘
混悬剂中增加分解介质黏度的附加剂是
消费者有权就产品质量问题,()。
当事人在( )活动中的地位平等。
下列关于证券经纪业务人员的说法错误的是()。
与学分制相配套的,衡量学生学业成绩的一种制度是________。
在音乐鉴赏课《沃尔塔瓦河》的教学过程中,李老师引导学生感受交响诗中蕴含的深沉情感,感受斯美塔那在作品创作中融入的浓浓爱国热情。李老师的这种教学行为充分体现了《普通高中音乐课程标准(2017年版)》中()方面的核心素养。
我国明朝末期的东林书院强调“家事、国事、天下事,事事关心”。这在一定程度上反映了教育所具有的()
当你正在电话中向下属单位一位态度很不冷静的同志解释最新颁布的治安法规时。领导过来要同你谈话。你怎么办?
最新回复
(
0
)