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  3. (1) A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York, to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank

(1) A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York, to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank

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问题     (1) A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York, to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank J. Blank on an independent ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these gentlemen, and that was—good character. It was easy to see by the newspapers that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. It was plain that in these latter years they had become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness—and that was the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people.
    (2) But, after all, I could not recede. I was fully committed, and must go on with the fight. As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast I came across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was so confounded before:
    (3) PERJURY.—Perhaps, now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses in Wakawak, Cochin China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury was to rob a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meager plantain patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and their desolation. Mr. Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up. Will he do it?
    (4) I thought I should burst with amazement! Such a cruel, heartless charge! I never had seen Cochin China! I never had heard of Wakawak! I didn’t know a plantain patch from a kangaroo! I did not know what to do. I was crazed and helpless. I let the day slip away without doing anything at all.
    (5) [Mem. —During the rest of the campaign this paper never referred to me in any other way than as "the infamous perjurer Twain."]
    (6) Next came the Gazette, with this:
    (7) WANTED TO KNOW. —Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to certain of his fellow-citizens (who are suffering to vote for him!) the little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain’s person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in) , they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and so tarred and feathered him and rode him on a rail, and then advised him to leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will he do this?
    (8) Could anything be more deliberately malicious than that? For I never was in Montana in my life.
    (9) [After this, this journal customarily spoke of me as "Twain, the Montana Thief".]
    (10) I got to picking up papers apprehensively—much as one would lift a desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it.
    (11) By this time anonymous letters were getting to be an important part of my mail matter. This form was common:
    (12) How about that old woman you kicked of your premises which was begging.
                                                       POL. PRY.
    (13) Shortly the principal Republican journal "convicted" me of wholesale bribery, and the leading Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me.
    (14) [In this way I acquired two additional names: "Twain the Filthy Corruptionist" and "Twain the Loathsome Embracer". ]
    (15) There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity (恶意) and seriously charged me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates, because it obstructed the view from my house. This threw me into a sort of panic. And at last, as a due and fitting climax to the shameless persecution that party rancor had inflicted upon me, nine little toddling children, of all shades of color and degrees of raggedness, were taught to rush onto the platform at a public meeting, and clasp me around the legs and call me PA!
    (16) I gave up. I hauled down my colors and surrendered. I was not equal to the requirements of a Gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so I sent in my withdrawal from the candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit signed it, "Truly yours, " once a decent man, but now "MARK TWAIN, I.P., M.T., B.S., D.T., F.C., andL.E." (本文改编自 Running For Governor)
According to Para. 1, Twain felt uncomfortable probably because________.
选项 A、he was afraid that his good fame would be blackened
B、he felt reluctant to associate with the evil people
C、It brought no honor to the victor in an unequal contest
D、It was too late to recede from a problematic competition
答案A
解析 推断题。原文第一段第二句提到与两位竞选对手相比，马克.吐温的优势是人品好，第三至五句中又明确提到，从报纸上得知那两位的可耻行径，马克.吐温一方面庆幸自己的优势，另一方面又不想让自己的名字和那两位一起被提及。由此可推知，他是不想让自己的名字与名声不好的人并提，担心玷污了自己的声誉，故A为答案。文中只提到马克.吐温对自己的名字与另外两位候选人的名字经常放在一起感到不安，并没有明确提出他不愿与这两人共事，B“他不愿与恶人共事”与文义不符，故排除；马克.吐温对于相较两个竞争对手存在优势还是心中窃喜的，并没有胜之不武的感觉，故排除C；马克.吐温先对与两位竞争对手并提感到不舒服，而后才提到无法退选，可见不能退选不是他感到不舒服的原因，故排除D。
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