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  3. Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she ha

Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she ha

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问题    Even happy families have secrets that run with no statute of limitations. Twenty years after my mother died, I discovered she had kept a scrapbook. It was delivered to me inside an old chest of drawers left by my father, who survived her by 18 years. The drawers were stuffed with memories and junk. his legal papers, his beloved mandolin sheet music, his college yearbooks and, in among some old photographs, a battered, yellowing composition notebook—a scrapbook kept by my mother for a short time in 1934. I was shocked.
   My mother was a thrower-outer—the scourge of packed closets, the emptier of overfilled drawers. I was a bringer-backer. We once clashed over my cherished tennis shoes, which she mistakenly took to the garbage simply because I was stuffing cardboard in the soles to plug the holes. I had to rescue them twice.
   Ours was a fundamental clash in human nature, surely as old as the species itself. Some of our hominid ancestors were gatherers who also picked up bright pebbles; others were hunters of clutter who demanded. "Can’t we get rid of some of this stuff?" From those who amassed, we have museums, libraries, attics that groan. From the winnowers, we have public sanitation, rarity (if everything were saved, nothing would be rare) and a way to the front door.
The author suggests that all of the following are true of human nature EXCEPT that
选项 A、it is inexplicable.
B、it is consistent over time.
C、it encompasses dichotomies.
D、it is often surprising.
答案A
解析 关于人的本性在文章的最后一段有阐述：“Ours was a fundamental clash in human nature，surely as old as the species itself．”首先人性是具有延续性的，从古至今，历史久远。这与B的内容接近。然后，文章讲到有些人惯于收藏，而有些人喜欢抛弃，这就是截然不同的态度，与C的内容相近。同时，人性带给人的往往是惊奇，就像作者一样，怎么也料想不到像她母亲那样的thrower-outer竟然也会保存什么东西。四个选项中，只有A的内容无法在文中找到相应证据。
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