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  3. When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat for an hour alone m his office. It began to grow dark an

When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat for an hour alone m his office. It began to grow dark an

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问题       When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat for an hour alone m his office. It began to grow dark and the man who all afternoon had been sitting on chairs and boxes before the livery barn across the street went home for the evening meal. The noise of voices grew faint and sometimes for five or ten minutes there was silence. Then from some distant street came a child’s cry. Presently church bells began to ring.
      The Doctor was not a very neat man and sometimes for several days he forgot to shave. With a long lean hand he stroked his half grown beard. His illness had struck deeper than he had admitted even to himself and his mind had an inclination to float out of his body. Often when he sat thus his hands lay in his lap and he looked at them with a child’s absorption. It seemed to him they must belong to someone else. He grew philosophic." It’s an odd thing about my body. Here I’ve lived in it all these years and how little use I have had of it. Now it’s going to die and decay never having been used. I wonder why it did not get
another tenant." He smiled sadly over this fancy but went on with it. "Well I’ve had thoughts enough con- cerning people and I’ve had the use of these lips and a tongue but I’ve let them lie idle. When my Ellen was here living with me I let her think me cold and unfeeling while something within me was straining and straining trying to tear itself loose.”①
     He remembered how often, as a young man, he had sat in the evening in silence beside his wife in this same office and how his hands had ached to reach across the narrow space that separated them and touch her hands, her face, her hair. ②
     Well, everyone in town had predicted his marriage would turn out badly! His wife had been an actress with a company that came to Huntersburg and got stranded there. At the same time, the girl became ill and had no money to pay for her room at the hotel. The young doctor had attended to that and when the girl was convalescent took her to ride about the country in his buggy. Her life had been a hard one and the notion of leading a quiet existence in the little town appealed to her.
     And then after the marriage and after the child was born she had suddenly found herself unable to go on living with the silent cold man. There had been a story of her having run away with a young sport, the son of a saloon keeper who had disappeared from town at the same time, but the story was untrue。③ Lester Cochran had himself taken her to Chicago where she got work with a company going into the far western states. Then he had taken her to the door of her hotel, had put money into her hands and in silence and without even a farewell kiss had turned and walked away.
     The Doctor sat in his office living over that moment and other intense moments when he had been deeply stirred and had been on the surface so cool and quiet. He wondered if the woman had known. How many times he had asked himself that question. After he left her that night at the hotel door she never wrote. “Perhaps she is dead,” he thought for the thousandth time.
The text suggests that Doctor Cochran ______.
选项 A、realized how short life was
B、didn’t unburden himself to Ellen
C、regretted having told lies in the past
D、cared about other people but himself
答案B
解析 推理判断题。第二段最后两句是他对自己婚姻的思考：他认为自己长了嘴和舌头，但是却没有使用它们。末句When my Ellen was here living with me I let her think me cold and unfeeling while something within me was straining and straining trying to tear itself loose．是对自己在婚姻中没有及时表达导致的结果的进一步说明，显然选项正B “没有向Ellen吐露心声”符合这部分内容，故为答案。这里，医生没有发出生命短暂的感叹，排除A 选项正C 是对倒数第二句中的lie idle的故意曲解，排除；该句中Well I’ve had thoughts enough concerning people是指“医生对于人进行了许多思考”，选项D 是对这部分内容的曲解，排除。
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