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
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and ot
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and ot
admin
2012-03-23
95
问题
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King’s Chapel. Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weatherstains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grassplot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society a prison. But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison- door; we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
The founders of a new colony found it necessary to build a______.
选项
A、park
B、market
C、house
D、jail
答案
D
解析
细节推断题。第二段说“…have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison”,在这里说早期的殖民者认为有必要辟出一块地方修建一座监狱和一个公墓,jail的意思与prison意思一致。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/P6iO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
MasstransportationrevisedthesocialandeconomicfabricoftheAmericancityinthreefundamentalways.Itcatalyzedphysical
Inearly19thcenturyAmerica,careforthementallyiiiwasalmostnon-existent:theafflictedwereusuallyrelegatedtopriso
ThatLouiseNevelsonisbelievedbymanycriticstobethegreatesttwentieth-centurysculptorisallthemoreremarkablebecaus
Duringadolescence,thedevelopmentofpoliticalideologybecomesapparentintheindividual;ideologyhereisdefinedasthepr
ReligioninAmericanLifeDiversityisthechieffeatureofreligionintheUnitedStates.AlthoughChristianityhasalways
WhyWomenAreLessLikelyThanMentoCommitSuicideItisgenerallyheldthatwomenwouldseemtoBeathigherriskforsuic
TheidealseasonforplantingthecropinthemainfieldisJuly-AugustorNovember-December.Plantingisdoneonraisedbedsof
ManyAdecadeago,atatimewhenplaceslikeIvoryCoastandEquatorialGuineawerebeinglargelyignoredbythepetroleumworl
MorethananyotherpoetLordByronhasbeenidentifiedwithhisownheroeswithChildeHarold,theromantictraveller;withMan
Theromanticimageofthetrustypostman,deliveringletterstothefarthest-flungcornersoftheland,makesthereformofpost
随机试题
建筑结构材料必须满足设计和有关规范、标准要求的指标有()。
根据中国人民财产保险股份有限公司的海洋运输货物保险条款的规定,罢工险属于()
患者,男,36岁。12小时前工作中突然出现右上腹痛,继之出现豆油色尿,半小时前出现上腹痛向腰背部放散,俯首弯腰可减轻腹痛,血压120/80mmHg,呼吸18次/分。下列诊断可能性最大的是
不造成肠黏膜损伤的腹泻致病菌是
工程风险按工程建设项目参与者划分,不包括()
已知f(x)为连续的偶函数,则f(x)的原函数中()。
当采用应力控制方法张拉时,应校核预应力筋的伸长值,实际伸长值比设计理论伸长值的相对允许偏差为()。
Robb计算机公司试图从表2-5-3所示的两个互斥项目中选择一个项目。如果公司使用净现值法进行投资决策,将选择哪个项目?
结合实际,论述法律意识的作用及其对实现法治国家的意义。
WhichofthefollowingstatementsdoesnottrulydescribeAlCastellano?
最新回复
(
0
)