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 following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father. "Did I ever tell you what happened wh
In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father. "Did I ever tell you what happened wh
admin
2008-10-11
73
问题
In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father.
"Did I ever tell you what happened when he was mugged a couple of years ago? He could have got himself killed. ’
"No. Tell me."
"A black kid about fourteen approached him with a gun on a side street leading to their little temple. It was the middle of the afternoon. My father had been at the temple office helping them with mailing or something and he was coming home. The black kids prey on the elderly Jews in his neighborhood even in broad daylight. They bicycle in from Newark, he tells me, take their money, laugh, and go home". "Get in the bushes," he tells my father. "I’m not getting in any bushes," my father says. "You can have whatever you want, and you don’t need that piece to get it. You can put that piece away." The kid lowers the gun and my father gives him his wallet." Take all the money," my father says, "but if the wallet’s of no value to you, I wouldn’t mind it back. "The kid takes the money, gives back the wallet, and he runs. And you know what my father does? He calls across the street, "How much did you get?" And the kid is obedient--he counts it for him. "Twenty-three dollars, "the kid says." Good," my father tells him-- "now don’t go out and spend it on crap."
Joanna laughed. "Well, he’s not guilty, your father. Of course he treats him like a son. He knows that the Jews in Bialystok were not responsible for the New England slave trade."
"It’s that--it’s more. He doesn’t experience powerlessness in the usual way."
"Yes, he’s oblivious to it,"she said. "He won’t give in to it. It makes for terrific insensitivity but also for terrific guts".
"Yes, what goes into survival isn’t always pretty. He got a lot of mileage out of never recognizing the differences among people. All my life I have been trying to tell him that people are different one from the other. My mother understood this in a way that he didn’t. Couldn’t. This is what I used to long for in him, some of her forbearance and tolerance, this simple recognition that people are different and that the difference is legitimate. But he couldn’t grasp it. They all had to work the same way, want the same way, be dutiful in the same way, and whoever did it different was meshugge--crazy."
Philip Roth’s father refused to go into the bushes. This was most likely because he ______.
选项
A、didn’t think it was necessary
B、didn’t believe the mugger was serious
C、thought he would lose his money if he did
D、was showing the "black kid" that he didn’t understand him
答案
A
解析
菲力普·罗思的父亲拒绝走进灌木丛。这很可能是因为他觉得没有这个必要。黑人小孩子持枪逼迫罗思的父亲走进灌木丛,然后欲对其进行抢劫,但罗斯的父亲拒绝走进灌木丛,他把钱包给了那个小伙子。因此,他觉得没有必要走进灌木丛。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/OxIO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Readthetextbelowaboutacompany’sapproachtosocialresponsibility.Inmostofthelines(34-45),thereisoneextrawor
Readthearticlebelowaboutworkingininternationalteams.Choosethebestsentencefromtheoppositepagetofilleachof
TheinterviewisconductedtodiscussthesignificanceofsalesfiguresinrecessionandWhatdosalesfiguresreflectinfree
Whydidlanstarthiscareersellingsportsequipment?Whichqualityinhisstaffdoeslanthinkismostimportantforsuccess?
•Lookatthenotesbelow.•Someinformationismissing.•Youwillhearatelephonetalkontravelarrangements.•Foreac
•LookatthenotesaboutonlinebookingofAustralianAirlines.•Someinformationismissing.•Youwillhearpartofapresentat
Lookatthenotesbelow.Someinformationismissing.YouwillhearajournalisttalkingtotheHeadofPublicRelationsofala
LittletonNewsUpdateTherateofunemploymentinLittleton,asmalltowninthesouthwestofEngland,hasreachedarecord
Readthereportbelowaboutamarketingexhibition.ChoosethecorrectwordtofilleachgapfromA,BorContheoppositepa
You’rebusyfillingouttheapplicationformforapositionyoureallyneed,let’sassumeyouonceactuallycompletedacoupleo
随机试题
对于变换而言水汽比指的是水与干煤气的摩尔比。
关于XML的描述不正确的是()
香港、澳门回归祖国以来的事实证明()
[*]
【背景资料】某高速公路项目,路面面层为沥青混凝土,基层为级配碎石,项目经理部决心精心组织、科学施工,搞好现场技术质量管理,做了包括如下环节的工作:(1)项目经理部由总工程师组织进行了技术交底。(2)为真正落实公司的现场技术管理制度制定了执行细则。其中
上海东方公司是亚洲地区的玻璃套装门分销商,套装门在A地区生产然后运至上海。管理当局预计年度需求量为10000套。套装门购进单价为395元(包括运费,币种是人民币,下同)。与订购和储存这些套装门相关的资料如下:(1)去年订单共22份,总处理成本1340
在我国,配股的目的主要体现在()。
《霍尔堡组曲》是作曲家________为纪念17世纪的丹麦民族戏剧奠基人霍尔堡诞辰200周年而作的作品,采用了________音乐风格写作。
2016年教师节前夕,习近平总书记视察北京八一学校时指出,广大教师要做学生的“四个引路人”。据此回答下列问题。下列属于“四个引路人”内容的有()
SQL中的DELETE语句可以用于______。
最新回复
(
0
)