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
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared
admin
2010-05-25
122
问题
Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended only when she slept.
The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing. The continuous exchanges further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an unendurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago have lifted them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University?
Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement.
A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but a home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. She threw herself into the venture with a noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long-stored mattresses, pillows and bed linen aired and sweetened in the sun.
Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took the copy for a modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, a home atmosphere in an historic mansion, the company of well-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank clerk and the other a maiden lady employed in a bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show them to their room, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half a cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room’s gloomy vastness.
When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining-hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pots, no towels on their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baidons were not inn-keepers, and then treated them to an account of the family’s past glories.
Which of the following best describes the author’s tone in the passage?
选项
A、Suspicious.
B、Humorous.
C、Persuasive.
D、Indifferent.
答案
B
解析
态度题。根据作者在文中的用词“end-product”,“whose complaints ended only when she slept”和“engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing”等句子,可见作者是以一种幽默的语气写的这篇文章。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ud2K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Wherearethetwopeople,mostprobably?
Thebiggestsafetythreatfacingairlinestodaymaynotbeaterroristwithagun,butthemanwiththeportablecomputerinbus
Whenyouthinkofthetremendoustechnologicalprogresswehavemade,it’samazinghowlittlewehavedevelopedinotherrespect
Hereminded______theletteratoncesothatitcouldcatchthefirstpostthenextmorning.
Accordingtotheprofessor,whatwere,thebeliefsoftheGreekphilosophersbasedupon?
SomesayTVmakesitpossibleforustoknowalmosteverythingthatishappeningintheworldwithoutsteppingoutofourownho
Inafamilywheretherolesofmenandwomenarenotsharplyseparatedandwheremanyhouseholdtasksaresharedtoagreateror
Susan______themagazinethewholemorning,yetshehasn’tfinishedit.
Onereasonhumanbeingscanthriveinallkindsofclimatesisthattheycancontrolthequalitiesoftheairintheenclosedsp
WhenColumbus_____America’sshores,heencounteredcopper-skinnedpeoplewhomhepromptlycalled"Indians".
随机试题
与印模要求无关的是A.印模必须清晰B.印模必须光滑C.印模必须完整无缺D.印模不能与托盘分离E.印模必须是硅橡胶
WHO关于乳腺癌TNM分期中T3是指肿瘤直径
需要延长造影时间的为
贫血时病人皮肤及黏膜苍白,较为可靠的检查部位是
甲向乙开具金额为100万元的汇票以支付货款。乙取得该汇票后背书转让给丙,丙又背书转让给丁,丁再背书转让给戊。现查明,甲、乙之间并无真实交易关系,丙为未成年人,票据金额被丁变造。下列哪些选项是正确的?
如果鲁天在1999年3月谢威向法院起诉前两年已离家出走,法院应如何处理?如果法院审理该案的过程中发现谢威怀孕己3个月,法院应当如何处理?
在项目实施阶段,工程管理的核心是()。
Youaregoingtoreadanarticlewhichisfollowedbyalistofexamplesorheadings.Choosethemostsuitableonefromthelist
【S1】【S5】
Themedicalworldisgraduallyrealizingthatthequalityoftheenvironmentinhospitalsmayplayasignificantroleinthepro
最新回复
(
0
)