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I can think of no better career for a young novelist than to for some years a sub-editor on a rather conservative newspaper. The
I can think of no better career for a young novelist than to for some years a sub-editor on a rather conservative newspaper. The
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2015-06-27
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I can think of no better career for a young novelist than to for some years a sub-editor on a rather conservative newspaper. The man who was of chief importance to me in those days was the chief sub-editor, George Anderson. I hated him in my first week, but I grew almost to love him before three years had passed.
A small elderly Scotsman with a flushed face and laconic humor, he drove a new subeditor hard with his sarcasm. Sometimes I almost fancied myself back at school again, and I was always glad when five-thirty came, for immediately the clock marked the hour when the pubs opened, he would take his bowler hat from the coat-rack and disappear for thirty minutes to his favorite bar. His place would be taken by the gentle and courteous Colonel Maude. Maude was careful to see that the new recruit was given no story which could possibly stretch his powers, and if he had been chief sub-editor I doubt if I would ever have got further than a news in brief paragraph.
At the stroke of six, when Anderson returned and hung up his bowler, his face would have turned a deeper shade of red, to match the rose he carried always in his button hole, and his shafts of criticism, as he scanned my copy with perhaps a too flagrant headline, would have acquired a tang of friendliness.
More than two years went by, and my novel The Man Within had been accepted by a publisher, before I discovered one slack evening, when there was hardly enough news to fill the Home pages for the ten o’clock edition, that a port manqu had dug those defenses of disappointed sarcasm. When a young man, Anderson had published a volume of translations from Verlaine, he had sent it to Swinburne at The Pines and he had been entertained there for tea and kind words by Watts-Dunton, though I don’t think he was allowed to see the poet. He never referred to the episode again, but I began to detect in him a harsh but paternal apprehension for another young man, flushed with pride in a first book, who might suffer the same disappointment. When I came to resign he spent a long time arguing with me, and I think his real reason for trying to prevent my departure was that he foresaw a time might come when novel-writing would fail me and I would need, like himself, a quiet and secure life with the pubs opening at half-past five and the coal settling in the grate.
The writer realized afterwards that
选项
A、Colonel Maude would deliberately have prevented him from rising in his profession.
B、Colonel Maude was too cautious to give a young writer a chance to distinguish himself.
C、he could not have gone on working for the newspaper if Colonel Maude had not taken over from Anderson.
D、chief sub-editors should be kind, like Colonel Maude.
答案
B
解析
文章中Maude was careful…a news in brief paragraph一句,意思是Maude很仔细以致于新的成员没有写故事的机会,而这样会巩固他的权力。我也在怀疑如果他是主编,我是不是还有机会写一段简短的新闻。所以选项[B]与原文意思相符,“Maude太过谨慎而不给年轻的编者表现自己的机会。”
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