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It was about sunset when I, a little child, was sent with a handful of powdered tobacco leaves and red feathers to make an offer
It was about sunset when I, a little child, was sent with a handful of powdered tobacco leaves and red feathers to make an offer
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2015-06-27
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It was about sunset when I, a little child, was sent with a handful of powdered tobacco leaves and red feathers to make an offering to the spirit who had caused the sickness of my little sister. It had been a long, hard winter, and the snow lay deep on the grassland as far as the eye could reach. The medicine-woman’s directions had been that the offering must be laid upon the naked earth, and that to find it I must face toward the setting sun.
But now where was a spot of earth to be found in all that white monotony? They had talked of death at the house. I hoped that my little sister would live, but I was afraid of nature.
I reached a little spring. I looked down to its bottom, wondering whether I should leave my offering there, or keep on in search of a spot of earth. If I put my offering in the water, would it reach the bottom and touch the earth, or would it float away, as it had always done when I made my offering to the water spirit?
Once more I started on in my search of the bare ground.
The surface was crusted in some places, and walking was easy; in other places I would wade through a foot or more of snow. Often I paused, thinking to clear the snow away in some place and there lay my offering. But no, my faith must be in nature, and I must trust to it to lay bare the earth. It was a hard struggle for so small a child.
I went on and on; the reeds were waving in the wind. I stopped and looked at them. A reed, whirling in the wind, had formed a space round its stem, making a loose socket. I stood looking into the opening. The reed must be rooted in the ground, and the hole must follow the stem to the earth. If I poured my offerings into the hole, surely they must reach the ground; so I said the prayer that I had been taught, and dropped my tobacco and red feathers into the opening that nature itself had created.
No sooner was the sacrifice accomplished than a feeling of doubt and fear thrilled me. What if my offering should never reach the earth? Would my little sister die?
Not untill I turned homeward did I realize how cold I was. When at last I reached the house they took me in and warmed me, but did not question me, and I said nothing. Everyone was sad, for the little one had grown worse.
The next day the medicine woman said my little sister was beyond hope; she could not live. Then bitter remorse was mine, for I thought I had been unfaithful, and therefore my little sister was to be called to the spirit land. I was a silent child, and did not utter my feelings; my remorse was intense.
What feeling does the narrator have toward her sister?
选项
A、Shame.
B、Bewilderment.
C、Forgiveness.
D、Anxiety.
答案
D
解析
文中描写了作者为救妹妹所做的努力,她时刻担心妹妹的身体状况,当知道妹妹无药可救时,她又深深地自责,怪自己没有尽力,由此可知答案为[D]。
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