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In the early 1950s, my father quit his job to start his own company. However, he got a heart attack and was sent to hospital. Af
In the early 1950s, my father quit his job to start his own company. However, he got a heart attack and was sent to hospital. Af
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In the early 1950s, my father quit his job to start his own company. However, he got a heart attack and was sent to hospital. After three years of therapy, he moved us to New York, where he got a sales job with the English carmaker Jaguar.
One of the job’s perks(额外津贴) was the car he was given to drive. It was a two-tone Mark IX, the last of the elegant rounded Jaguars. It looked like it belonged to a movie star.
Every morning my father would drop me off at school in his Jaguar before going to work. Being the son of a blacksmith(铁匠), he was proud of the car and thought I should be proud to be driven to school in it. He loved it very much.
But the car embarrassed me. After the years of illness and debt, we probably didn’t have any more money than the mostly working-class kids at school. But we had a Jaguar, so we might as well have been Rockefellers.
The car separated me from others, especially from Danny Kowalski. He was what they called a juvenile delinquent in those days. He was high and had blond hair. It was rumoured he always carried a knife and maybe even a gun.
Every morning Danny would stand silently in the same spot by the school fence and watch me climb out of my two-tone Jaguar. I knew he hated the car and that he hated me, and that one day he would beat me up.
My father died just months later. We lost the car, of course, and soon I’d have to go live with my grandmother. Before then, Mrs. Ritchfield, an elderly neighbour, offered to walk me to school the day after the funeral.
As we arrived that morning, I could see Danny standing at the school fence, same as always. But this time, as I passed him in the company of my elderly neighbour and no elitist English car, I left as if a wall between us came down. Now I was more like Danny, more his friends. We were finally equals.
Relieved, I walked into the schoolyard. And that was morning Danny Kowalski beat me up.
When Mrs. Ritchfield walked him to school the day after the funeral, the author felt______.
选项
A、embarrassed by no elitist English car
B、inferior to Danny and his friends
C、relieved for being equals with Danny and his friends
D、extremely sensitive about the loss of an expensive car
答案
C
解析
推断题。根据是倒数第二段。当 Mrs.Ritchfield 陪作者走到学校时,作者觉得没有车后自己与丹尼之间的隔阂应该消失了,彼此之间的地位可以平等了。
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