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Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. He could have had assistant
Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. He could have had assistant
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Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. He could have had assistants, as many—and he did have very many—but since he took his job very seriously, he would in the end go over all the figures and calculations himself, and thus his assistants were of little help to him.
It cannot be said that he enjoyed his work: he did it only because it had been assigned to him
; in fact, he had already filed many petitions for—as he put it—more cheerful work, but every time the offer of something different was made to him it would turn out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present position. And anyhow it was quite difficult to find something different for him. After all, it was impossible to assign him to a particular sea; aside from the fact that even then the work with figures would not become less but only pettier, the great Poseidon could in any case occupy only an executive position. And when a job away.from the water was offered to him he would get sick at the very prospect, his divine breathing would become troubled and his brazen chest began to tremble. Besides, his complaints were not really taken seriously; when one of the mighty is vexatious the appearance of an effort must be made to placate him, even when the case is most hopeless. In actuality a shift of posts was unthinkable for Poseidon—he had been appointed God of the Sea in the beginning, and that he had to remain.
What irritated him most—and it was this that was chiefly responsible for his dissatisfaction with his job—was to hear of the conceptions formed about him:
how he was always riding about through the tides with his trident. When all the while he sat here in the depths of the world-ocean, doing figures uninterruptedly, with now and then a trip to Jupiter as the only break in the monotony—a trip, moreover, from which he usually returned in a rage.
Thus he had hardly seen the sea—had seen it but quickly in the course of hurried trips to Olympus, and he had never actually traveled around it. He was in the habit of saying that what he was waiting for was the fall of the world; then, probably, a quiet moment would be granted in which, just before the end and having checked the last row of figures, he would be able to make a quick little tour.
Poseidon became bored with the sea. He let fall his trident. Silently he sat on the rocky coast and a gull, dazed by his presence, described wavering circles around his head.
Poseidon is unable to change occupations for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
选项
A、his appointment as God of the Sea is inherently unchangeable
B、he has fallen into disfavor with the gods on Mount Olympus
C、he cannot imagine a life away from the water
D、nothing else suits him as well as his present position
答案
B
解析
细节题。通过文章内容可知,A项:他的海神地位不可动摇。C项:他的生活无法与水脱离关系。D项:没有什么职位比他目前的职位更适合他了。这三项都有所陈述。只有B项:使它与诸神疏远,没有提及,所以,答案是B。
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