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
Just over a year ago, I foolishly locked up my bicycle outside my office, but forgot to remove the pannier. When I returned, the
Just over a year ago, I foolishly locked up my bicycle outside my office, but forgot to remove the pannier. When I returned, the
admin
2012-06-18
60
问题
Just over a year ago, I foolishly locked up my bicycle outside my office, but forgot to remove the pannier. When I returned, the pannier had been stolen. Inside it were about ten of the little red notebooks I take everywhere for jotting down ideas for articles, short stories, TV shows and the like.
When I lost my notebooks, I was devastated; all the ideas I’d had over the past two years were contained within their pages. I could remember only a few of them, but had the impression that those I couldn’t recall were truly brilliant. Those little books were crammed with the plots of award-winning novels and scripts for radio comedy shows that were only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment. That’s not all though. In my reminiscence my lost notebooks contained sketches for many innovative and incredible machines. In one book there was a design for a device that could turn sea water into apple cider in another, plan for an automatic dog; in a third, sketches for a pair of waterproof shoes with television screens built into the toes. Now all of these plans are lost to humanity.
I found my notebooks again. It turns out they weren’t in the bike pannier at all, but in a bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them. And when I flipped through their pages, ready to run to the patent office in the morning, I discovered they were completely full of rubbish.
Discovering the notebooks really shook me up. I had firmly come to believe they were brimming with brilliant, inventive stuff-and yet clearly they weren’t. I had deluded myself.
After surveying my nonsense, I found that this halo effect always attaches itself to things that seem irretrievably lost. Don’t we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bunnier in the not-very-distant pasty.
All this would not matter much except that it is a powerful element in reactionary thought, this belief in a better yesterday. After all, racism often stems from a delusion that things have deteriorated since "they" came. What a boon to society it would be if people could visit the past and see that it wasn’t the paradise they imagine but simply the present with different hats. Sadly, time travel is impossible. Until now, that is. Because I’ve suddenly remembered I left a leather jacket in an Indonesian restaurant a couples of years ago, and I’m absolutely certain that in the inside pocket there was a sketch I’d made...
What’s the author’s initial reaction when he found his notebooks lost?
选项
A、He was indifferent.
B、He was worried.
C、He was pleased.
D、He was excited.
答案
B
解析
本题可参照文章的第二段。从中可知,作者在丢失了笔记本之后心情很糟糕。因此B项是正确的。A、C、D三项显然不对。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/jgnO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Heisa(n)______andwell-behavedchild,buthisparentsworryabouthimforhetalkstoolittle.
Thevegetativeformsofmostbacteriaarekilledbydryinginair,althoughthedifferentspeciesexhibitpronounceddifferences
Youknowyoushoulddoit,otherpeopledoitallthetime.Maybeyou’vealreadydoneitbutitwasn’tverysatisfying,andyou
Japanesescientistsareatlastactivelyenteringthedebateoverthegovernment’scontroversialreformplan,whichtargetsnot
Itdemandsartisticskillforamanagerto______disputesamonghisemployees.
Theygreetedhisproposalwith______andrefusedtogiveitseriousstudy.
Themorewomenandminoritiesmaketheirwayintotheranksofmanagementthemoretheyseemtowanttotalkaboutthingsformer
Inthe20thcenturytheequippingofbathroomsbecameaseparateindustrywithawidevarietyofspecialformsofbathroomfurni
Lookatthismess!IfonlyI______youradvice.
Attheageoftwelveyears,thehumanbodyisatitsmostvigorous.Ithasyettoreachitsfullsizeandstrength,anditsowne
随机试题
同业拆借资金不能用于()
维生素D缺乏性佝偻病的骨骼改变,下列叙述哪项是不恰当的
关于胎盘泌乳素(hPL),下列哪项正确
下列哪一项是老年人高血压的特征
枳术丸中枳实与白术的比例是
董某(17岁)在某景点旅游时,点燃荒草不慎引起大火烧毁集体所有的大风公司林地,致大风公司损失5万元,被检察院提起公诉。关于本案处理,下列哪一选项是正确的?(2017年卷二40题,单选)
税务机关作出的下列行政行为中,属于行政处罚但不适用处罚听证程序的是()。(2017年)
定基发展速度等于相应的各环比发展速度()。
某企业集团中,母公司对子公司的控股比例为80%,母公司年初未分配利润为20万元,子公司年初未分配利润为10万元,子公司年末盈余公积为5万元,当期新提盈余公积为1万元,母公司年初内部应收账款为3万元,坏账提取比例为3‰,则合并会计报表中的年初未分配利润为(
(2017年真题)下列关于罚金的表述,符合我国刑法规定的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)