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Waverly laughed in a lighthearted way. "I mean, really, June." And then she started in a deep television-announcer voice: "There
Waverly laughed in a lighthearted way. "I mean, really, June." And then she started in a deep television-announcer voice: "There
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2014-06-02
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Waverly laughed in a lighthearted way. "I mean, really, June." And then she started in a deep television-announcer voice: "There benefits, three needs, three reasons to buy... Satisfaction guaranteed..."
She said this in such a funny way that everybody thought it was a good joke and laughed. And then, to make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: "True, one can’t teach style, June is not sophisticated like you. She must have been born this way."
I was surprised at my self, how humiliated I felt. I had been outsmarted by Waverly once again, and now betrayed by my own mother.
Five months ago, some time after the dinner, my mother gave me my "life’s importance," a jade pendant on a gold chain. The pendant was not a piece of jewelry I would have chosen for myself. It was almost the size of my little finger, a mottled green and white color, intricately carved. To me, the whole effect looked wrong: too large, too green, too garishly ornate. I stuffed the necklace ha my lacquer box and forget about it.
But these day, I think about my life’s importance. I wonder what it means, because my mother died three months ago, six days before my thirty-sixth birthday. And she’s the only person I could have asked to tell me about life’s importance, to help me understand my grief.
I now wear that pendant every day. I think the carvings mean something, because shapes and details, which I never seem td notice until after they are pointed out to me, always mean something to Chinese people. I know I could ask Auntie Lindo, Auntie An-mei, or other Chinese friends, but I also know they would tell me a meaning that is different from what my mother intended. What if they tell me this curving line branching into three oval shapes is a pomegranate and that my mother was wishing me fertility and posterity? What if my mother really meant the carvings were a branch of pears to give me purity and honesty?
And because l think about this all the time, I always notice other people wearing these same jade pendants-not the flat rectangular medallions or the round white ones with holes in the middle but ones like mine, a two-inch oblong of bright apple green, It’s as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we don’t even know what we belong to. East weekend, for example, ! saw a bartender wearing one. As I fingered mine, I asked him. "Where’d you get yours?"
"my mother gave it to me," He said.
I asked him why, which is a nosy question that only one Chinese person can ask another; in a crowd Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.
"She gave it to me after I got divorced, I guess my mother’s telling me I’m still worth something."
And I knew by the wonder in his voice that he had no idea what the pendant really meant.
The description of June’s encounter with the bartender primarily serves to suggest that______.
选项
A、that relationship of mother and son is different from that of mother and daughter
B、June is not the only one who ponders the meaning of a jade pendant
C、a jade pendant symbolizes the mystery of life and death
D、June finally understands the true meaning of her jade pendant
答案
B
解析
细节题。此题要看第6-11段,题干问的是June遇见bartender。调酒师的描述主要是要传达什么信息。先看看四个选项的解释,A母子不用于母女关系:B并非只有June思量玉坠的意义;C玉坠象征着生死之谜;D项,June最终明白了她所佩戴的玉坠的真正含义。文中第六整段都是说June一直在寻思母亲给她玉坠究竟有什么含义,在看第十段,bartender调酒师的原话,“I guess my mother’s telling me I’m still worth something.”中guess道出了他心里的猜测,并不肯定,所以按照这个根据,我们不难选出正确答案B。
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