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Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared
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2010-05-25
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Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended only when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing. The continuous exchanges further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an unendurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago have lifted them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University?
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but a home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. She threw herself into the venture with a noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long-stored mattresses, pillows and bed linen aired and sweetened in the sun.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took the copy for a modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, a home atmosphere in an historic mansion, the company of well-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank clerk and the other a maiden lady employed in a bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha descend to show them to their room, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half a cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining-hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pots, no towels on their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baidons were not inn-keepers, and then treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.
What does the term "tidy" in Line 3 ,Para. 5 possibly mean?
选项
A、neat and orderly.
B、substantial and considerable.
C、adequate and valuable.
D、minute.
答案
B
解析
词汇语义题。句意为“她所开创的不是一个寄宿公寓。而是一个专门为绅士和淑女们休息的所在,要赚上一笔。”这里tidy是口语用法,意思是“可观的、相当大的”。A 选项是tidy的基本意思,搭配不当;选项C 是干扰项,“适当的,有价值的”,意思合适,但是语气上不充分,因为文中第六段第一句话我们知道Agatha早就雄心勃勃,宣称要重振家业;第三、四句话说她投入这轰轰烈烈的“事业”当中,准备大干一场;第六段第一句话还说她谦虚地刊登广告,所有这些都反映出Agatha干劲十足,要大赚一笔。选项D 表示“微不足道的”,与原文意思相反,予以排除。
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