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
In England, along a stretch of the north-east coast which gently curves from Northumberland to the mouth of the river Tees, ther
In England, along a stretch of the north-east coast which gently curves from Northumberland to the mouth of the river Tees, ther
admin
2013-02-16
48
问题
In England, along a stretch of the north-east coast which gently curves from Northumberland to the mouth of the river Tees, there was a spot, typical of many on that coast, where sea-coal collected richly and effortlessly. This coal was a coarse powder, clean and brilliant like particles of crushed jet; it seemed to bear little resemblance to the large, dirty lumps put onto the fire. Although it was coal, it was perfectly clean and it was silently deposited at high tide in a glittering carpet a kilometer long for the coal community to gather up.
The gear needed for sea-coaling expeditions was a curious and traditionally proven mixture which never varied from community to community along the entire north-east coastline. Sacks were essential to put the coal in, and string to tie the neck of each sack when it was full. A wooden rake was used to scrape the coal from the beach, and it was generally made from an old broom handle with a flat piece of wood nailed on at a slight reclining angle at the end. The only alternative to the rake was a flat piece of board held in the hand, which children and other workers of additional service crouched down to use. A flat, broad shovel, to lift the raked coal into the bags, completed the portable hardware.
But the most crucial item of equipment was a bicycle, a special kind of rusty stripped-down model which was the symbol of the sea-coaling craft. A lady’s bike was no good because it lacked a crossbar and that was an essential element in transporting sea-coal. One full sack could be slung through the triangular format of a man’s bike, another over the crossbar and, sometimes, even a third on top of that. The beauty of this was that it not only enabled one to move the sea-coal from place to the beach was generally a double snail track of water that had been forced from each end of a trail of coal sacks.
The attraction of collecting sea-coal was that it ______.
选项
A、burnt better on the fire
B、was freely available
C、was clean and fine-grained
D、made no noise while burning
答案
B
解析
根据文章第一段最后一句“Although it was coal,it was perfectly clean and it was silently deposited athigh tide in a glittering carpet a kilometer long for the coal community to gather up.”可知,尽管海碳也是一种煤,却十分地清洁,在涨潮的时候会悄无声息地沉积在一个闪闪发光的大约1千米长的地毯状的区域,等待着采集者前来拾取。根据生活常识,海碳的诱人之处当然在于它可以免费获取了。据此判断,答案是B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ubmO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Thefolkartrubrichasalsobeenextendedtoincludeallmanneroftraditionalartisticproductions,eventheself-consciously
Thediscoveryoftheobesitygeneinhumanshalfadecadeagoofferedevidencethatchronicweightgainistheconsequenceofa
Thehumanbraincontains10thousandmillioncellsandeachofthesemayhaveathousandconnections.Suchenormousnumbersused
Forthispart,youarerequiredtowriteacompositionofatleast250wordsaccordingtothefollowinginstruction."Somepeopl
______anyoneshouldthinkitstrange,letmeassureyouthatitisquitetrue.
Hurricanesareviolentstormsthatcausemillionsofdollarsinpropertydamageandtakemanylives.Theycanbeextremelydange
StudentlifeatAmericanuniversitiesischaoticduringthefirstweekofeachquarterorsemester.Registeringforclasses,bec
MywritinginmylateteensandearlyadulthoodwasfashionedaftertheU.S.shortstoriesandpoetrytaughtinthehighschools
Manycriticsofthecurrentwelfaresystemarguethatexistingwelfareregulationsfosterfamilyinstability.Theymaintainthat
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
随机试题
男,18岁,肾衰竭后行肾移植术,供受体血型相配,术后2周发生体温升高,尿量减少,仅为每天400ml,血尿素氮升高。他发生的排斥反应是
小肠所特有的运动的形式是
患者,男性,48岁,在某医院实施脊柱手术,术后出现医疗纠纷,经医疗事故鉴定委员会鉴定为三级医疗事故。下列叙述中,符合三级医疗事故的是()。
男性,25岁,电工,于工作中被1200V电压击中,请问他的电击伤属于哪一类()
A.细胞免疫介导B.抗肾小管刷状缘抗体介导C.原位形成免疫复合物介导D.循环免疫复合物介导E.抗肾小球基膜抗体介导患者,男性,20岁。以急性肾炎起病,临床诊断为急性链球菌感染后肾炎。其发病机制是
卵巢浆液性肿瘤来源于
合同条款出现疏漏而给咨询公司造成的经济损失及风险属于(》。
下列句中加下划线的字的意义和用法不同于其他三项的是()。
从新中国成立后各个历史阶段的流行语,我们可以清晰地看到时代的镜像。“抗美援朝,大跃进,大炼钢铁,上山下乡,样板戏”等从政治、经济、文化角度反映建国初到文革结束的时代特征。“下海,商品经济,摸着石头过河,特区"等词语的出现反映了改革开放初期经济思想的大转变。
计算
最新回复
(
0
)