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
The Hero My mother’s parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather could trace his origin to Germany and also he was educate
The Hero My mother’s parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather could trace his origin to Germany and also he was educate
admin
2016-01-30
25
问题
The Hero
My mother’s parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather could trace his origin to Germany and also he was educated in Germany. Although he was able to hold a conversation in nine languages, he was most comfortable in German. Every morning, before going to his office, he read title German language newspaper, which was American owned and published in New York.
My grandfather was the only one in his family to come to the United States with his wife and children. He still had relatives living in Europe. When the First World War broke out, he lamented the fact if my uncle, his only son had to go, it would be cousin fighting against cousin. In the early days of the war, my grandmother begged him to stop taking the German newspaper and to take an English language newspaper, instead. He scoffed at the idea, explaining that the fact it was in German did not make it a German newspaper, but only an American newspaper printed in German. But my grandmother insisted, for fear that the neighbors may see him read it and think he was German. So, he finally gave up the German newspaper.
One day, the inevitable happened and my uncle Milton received notice to join the army. My grandparents were very upset, but my mother, his little sister, was excited. Now she could boast about her soldier brother going off to war. She was ten years old at the time, and my uncle, realizing how he was regarded by his little sister and her friends, went out and bought them all service pins, which meant that they had a loved one in the service. All the little girls were delighted. When the day came for him to leave, his whole regiment, in their uniforms, left together from the same train station. There was a band playing and my mother and her friends came to see him off. Each one wore her service pin and waved a small American flag, cheering the boys, as they left.
The moment came and the soldiers, all very young, none of whom had any training, but who had nevertheless all been issued uniforms, boarded the train. The band played and the crowd cheered. The train groaned as if it knew the destiny to which it was taking its passengers, but it soon began to move. Still cheering and waving their lags, the band still playing, the train slowly departed the station.
It had gone about a thousand yards when it suddenly ground to a halt. The band stopped playing, the crowd stopped cheering. Everyone gazed in wonder as the train slowly backed up and returned to the station, it seemed an eternity until the doors opened and the men started to file out. Someone shouted, "It’s the armistice. The war is over. " For a moment, nobody moved, but then the people heard someone bark orders at the soldiers. The men lined up and formed into two lines. They walked down the steps and, with the band playing behind, paraded down the street, as returning heroes, to be welcomed home by the assembled crowd. The next day my uncle returned to his job, and my grandfather resumed reading the German newspaper, which he read until the day he died.
The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because______.
选项
A、like everybody else at the war time, she was very patriotic
B、she hated the war and the Germans very much
C、all her friends had relatives in war and she wanted to be like them
D、she liked to have a brother she could think of as a hero
答案
D
解析
细节推断题。根据题干关键词brother to go to fight in the war与原文第三段第三句中的brothergoing off to war对应,据此定位答案。原句中的boast about her soldier brother going off to war与选项D对应。故答案为D(她希望自己有个英雄哥哥)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/t6GO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Mostofustellonetwoliesaday,accordingtoscientistswhostudythesethings.Andwerarelygetcaught,becausetheliesw
Mostofustellonetwoliesaday,accordingtoscientistswhostudythesethings.Andwerarelygetcaught,becausetheliesw
Nanotechnology,accordingtoitsfans,willjump-startanewindustrialrevolutionwithmolecular-sizedstructuresascomplexas
TheeventsofSept.11haveratchetedupsecurityatAmericanairportstothehighestlevelever,accordingtoaspokesmanforT
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【C1】______anongoingstraggleagainst【C
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【C1】______anongoingstraggleagainst【C
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【C1】______anongoingstraggleagainst【C
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【C1】______anongoingstraggleagainst【C
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【C1】______anongoingstraggleagainst【C
"RefrigeratorproductioninChinajumpedfrom1.4millionunitsin1985to10.6millionin1998,"accordingtoDavidFridley,ar
随机试题
(2013年4月)合同法律适用上的”分割论”者们通常主张_____。
下列哪种药物不溶于碳酸氢钠溶液()
男,65岁。高血压病史20年,近日出现上腹部疼痛,经钡餐检查诊断为胃溃疡,除应用抗消化性溃疡药外,其控制血压药物最好选用
某患者尸检发现,其肺体积增大,边缘钝圆,色灰白,质软而缺乏弹性,指压后遗留压痕,此人可能死于
某建筑安装工程项目发生直接费用为200万元,间接费为90万元,规费按1%计算,则该项目的规费为()万元。
某粮食加工厂是集体企业,系增值税一般纳税人,以外购粮食为原料,生产并加工各种面食。流转税以月为一纳税期,企业2003年2月(年终决算前)委托某注册税务师对该企业2002年度有关纳税情况进行审查。要求:1.根据所给资料顺序扼要指出各经济业务
教育发展受制于政治经济制度等因素,但也具有相对独立性,具体表现在()。
远程电力传输一般采用50~100万伏的高电压,其主要原因是()。
把下面的六个图形分为两类.使每一类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是:
根据劳动力市场理论,教育与工资的关系()
最新回复
(
0
)