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  3. In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father. "Did I ever tell you what happened wh

In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father. "Did I ever tell you what happened wh

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问题    In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father.
   "Did I ever tell you what happened when he was mugged a couple of years ago? He could have got himself killed. ’
   "No. Tell me."
   "A black kid about fourteen approached him with a gun on a side street leading to their little temple. It was the middle of the afternoon. My father had been at the temple office helping them with mailing or something and he was coming home. The black kids prey on the elderly Jews in his neighborhood even in broad daylight. They bicycle in from Newark, he tells me, take their money, laugh, and go home". "Get in the bushes," he tells my father. "I’m not getting in any bushes," my father says. "You can have whatever you want, and you don’t need that piece to get it. You can put that piece away." The kid lowers the gun and my father gives him his wallet." Take all the money," my father says, "but if the wallet’s of no value to you, I wouldn’t mind it back. "The kid takes the money, gives back the wallet, and he runs. And you know what my father does? He calls across the street, "How much did you get?" And the kid is obedient--he counts it for him. "Twenty-three dollars, "the kid says." Good," my father tells him-- "now don’t go out and spend it on crap."
   Joanna laughed. "Well, he’s not guilty, your father. Of course he treats him like a son. He knows that the Jews in Bialystok were not responsible for the New England slave trade."
   "It’s that--it’s more. He doesn’t experience powerlessness in the usual way."
   "Yes, he’s oblivious to it,"she said. "He won’t give in to it. It makes for terrific insensitivity but also for terrific guts".
   "Yes, what goes into survival isn’t always pretty. He got a lot of mileage out of never recognizing the differences among people. All my life I have been trying to tell him that people are different one from the other. My mother understood this in a way that he didn’t. Couldn’t. This is what I used to long for in him, some of her forbearance and tolerance, this simple recognition that people are different and that the difference is legitimate. But he couldn’t grasp it. They all had to work the same way, want the same way, be dutiful in the same way, and whoever did it different was meshugge--crazy."  
Philip Roth tells Joanna that he used to long for his father to be less ______.
选项 A、gutsy and courageous
B、boring and conventional
C、powerless and vulnerable
D、rigid and uncompromising
答案D
解析 作者在最后一段说，罗思长期告诉他父亲人是相互区别的，他母亲理解这一点。父亲却不理解，他不可能理解这一点，人们是有差异的，这种差异是合法的。但是他父亲领会不了这种差异。他渴望他父亲有母亲的宽容和忍耐。他们必须用同一种方式做事情，想要千篇一律，同样地忠于职守，用不同的方式做事情就意味着疯狂。由此可看出他父亲是一个固执僵化的、毫不妥协的人。因此，他希望他父亲不要那么固执、不要那么强硬。
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