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
I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of To
I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of To
admin
2010-05-14
71
问题
I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has something sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in better humor with themselves and less disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abundance, of good living, of genial, comfortable, optimistic, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort, or displace himself even, to go in search of a pleasure; and it is not difficult to understand the sources of this amiable cynicism. He must have a vague conviction that he can only lose by almost any change. Fortune has been kind to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable climate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, sometimes floods the country around it, but of which the ravages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggressions may perhaps be regarded (in a region where so many good things are certain) merely as an occasion for healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, religious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristically national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Burgundy, Provence is Provence; but Touraine is essentially France. It is the land of Rabelais, of Descartes, of Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good dinners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France, "son climat ouple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et courtes." In the autumn of 1882 the rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible that anything in the way of weather could be more charming. The vineyards and orchards looked rich in the fresh, gay light; cultivation was everywhere, but everywhere it seemed to be easy. There was no visible poverty; thrift and success presented themselves as matters of good taste. The white caps of the women glittered in the sunshire, and their well-made sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux, a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary properties. The peasantry have less of the luxury of ownership than in most other parts of France; though they have enough of it to give them quite their share of that shrewdly conservative look which, in the little, chaffering, place of the market-town, the stranger observes so often in the wrinkled brown masks that surmount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a reflection of the splendor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great "style" to a landscape of which the features are not, as the phrase is, prominent, and carries the eye to distances even more poetic than the green horizons of Touraine. It is a very fitful stream, and is sometimes observed to run thin and expose all the crudities of its channel, a great defect certainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters. But I speak of it as I saw it last; full, tranquil, powerful, bending in large slow curves, and sending back half the light of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of autumn sunshine, it seemed the very model of a generous, beneficent stream. The most charming part of Tours is naturally the shaded quay that overlooks it, and looks across too at the friendly faubourg of Saint Symphorien and at the terraced heights which rise above this. Indeed, throughout Touraine, it is half the charm of the Loire that you can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, protects the country from it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirable road; and on the other side, as well, the highway constantly keeps it company. A wide river, as you follow a wide road, is excellent company; it heightens and shortens the way.
Touraine features all of the following except ______.
选项
A、the shaded quay
B、the Loire
C、the great dike
D、French history
答案
A
解析
这一题应当从整个都兰地区范围内来考虑。图尔是卢瓦尔河上的城市,都兰地区的首府,和绵延都兰地区的卢瓦尔河及河堤,以及整个地区弥漫的历史气息相比,那里最为迷人的浓荫下的码头就不能代表整个地区了。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gblO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Ifirstly【B1】______towritetheletterwhentheproducercalledbecauseFOOCwasaboutotherpeople’s【B2】______and【B3】______.
A、Theyknowtheyaregoingtobemurderedsotheyarefrightened.B、Theydon’thavethesenseofsecurityafterthetrainbombin
A、Itisachaosbecausealltheperformersarechatting,sittingandeatingthesamefoodtogether.B、Itisnotwellorganizedb
ThefirstcasesofthedeadlyH5N1havebeenconfirmedin【B1】______wheremosteffortsfocusontryingtokeepdomesticbirdsaw
InBolivia,lifeisslowlyreturningtonormalafteralmostamonthofdemonstrations.【C1】______—frompoorpeasantfarmerstomi
A、Itssalesrepresentativeshavebeenmisleadingtheircustomersinthepurchaseofcomputers.B、Itsexpertsarenotawareofth
Expertsestimatethatsomewherebetween【B1】______and【B2】______ofeverythingwecommunicateisnonverbal.Waysofnonverbalcommu
"Toerrishuman,toforgive,divine"."Alittlelearningisadangerousthing"aretakenfromthepoemswrittenby______.
RobotshavebeenthestuffofpopularcultureforsolongthatWethinkofthemmostlyasafun.Inthenextdecadetheywillfi
RobotshavebeenthestuffofpopularcultureforsolongthatWethinkofthemmostlyasafun.Inthenextdecadetheywillfi
随机试题
Therearemanykindsofbridges.Abridgecanbealog【C1】______astreamoraropeacrossariver.【C2】______somebridgesarever
消费者权利作为一种基本人权是生存权的重要组成部分,消费者最基本的权利是()。
同理心不只是建立关系的手段之一,而且是解决问题的方法和目的。()
认为社会价值高于个体价值,把满足社会需要视为教育根本价值的教育目的价值取向属于()
唐代诗人杜苟鹤的诗作《泾溪》这样写道:“泾溪石险人兢慎,终岁不闻倾覆人。却是平流无石处,时时闻说有沈(同‘沉’)沦。”仔细思考,这首诗富有哲理。下面与这首诗体现同一哲理的是()。①多难兴邦②兴,百姓苦;亡,百姓苦③艰难困苦,玉
老王围着边长为50米的正六边形的草地跑步,他从某个角点出发,跑了500米之后,与出发点相距有多远?
在中国,行政执行一般划分为中央级、省级、市县级、乡级四个层次。()
唐代将“同中书门下平章事”基本固化为宰相名号始于
SchmecktIhnenderKaffeenicht?
DeafnessLatestSituationAbout16-millionpeopleintheUnitedStateshavelostsomeoftheirhearing.About2-million
最新回复
(
0
)