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I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall gre
I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall gre
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2014-06-02
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I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in , singly , or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of being—dancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from their clever white turnings of their limbs.
Amongst them—though all were delightful—there were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love.
During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragon-fly round some water-lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolizing all longing, and moving one’s heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very movement of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet.
The other child who particularly enchanted me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the scared fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very sprit of movement, one felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joy’s laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture.
I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden.
God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lies deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun , and in certain great works of art—the power to set the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight.
From this passage, it can be inferred that______.
选项
A、the dancing girls are all very beautiful
B、the girls come from all over the world
C、the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers
D、the girls’ performance is very successful
答案
D
解析
推理题。孩子们的表演给观众带来了愉悦,让观众沉浸在美和快乐之中,显然表演很成功。文章并没有说孩子们都很漂亮,也没说她们来自哪里,A和B不对。引起作者注意的一个是最高个头儿的,另一个是比较矮的,C也不对。
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