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
When you are small,all ambitions fall into one grand category:when I’m grown up. When I’m grown up,you say,I’ll go up in space.
When you are small,all ambitions fall into one grand category:when I’m grown up. When I’m grown up,you say,I’ll go up in space.
admin
2013-11-29
60
问题
When you are small,all ambitions fall into one grand category:when I’m grown up. When I’m grown up,you say,I’ll go up in space. I’m going to be an author. I’ll kill them all and then they’ll be sorry. I’ll be married in a cathedral with sixteen bridesmaids in pink lace. I’ll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away.
None of it ever happens,of course—or dam little but the fantasies give you the idea that there is something to grow up for. Indeed one of the saddest things about gilded adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on,it’s all downhill; I read with horror of an American hippie wedding where someone said to the groom (age twenty),"You seem so kinda grown up somehow",and the lad had to go around seeking reassurance that he wasn’t,no,really he wasn’t. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine,but to refuse to grow up at all is just plain unrealism.
Right,so then you get some of what you want,or something like it or something that will do all right; and for years you are too busy to do more than live in the present and put one foot in front of the other; your goals stretching little beyond the day when the boss has a stroke or the moment when the children can bring you tea in bed—and the later moment when they actually bring you hot tea,not mostly clopped in the saucer. However,! have now discovered an even sweeter category of ambition. When my children are grown up...When my children are grown up I’ll learn to fly an aero plane. I will career round the sky, knowing that if I do "go pop" there will be no little ones to suffer shock and maladjustment; that even if the worst does come to the worst I will at least dodge the geriatric ward and all that looking for your glasses. In order to see where you’ve left your teeth. When my children are grown up I’ll have fragile,lovely things on low tables;I’II have a white carpet;I’ll go to the pictures in the afternoon. When the children are grown up I’ll actually be able to do a day’s work in day,instead of spread over three,and go away for a weekend without planning as if for a trip to the Moon. When I’m grown up—I mean when they’re grown up—I’ II be free.
Of course,I know it’s got to get worse before it gets better. Twelve-year-olds,I’m told,don’t go to tend at seven,so you don’t even get your evenings;once they’re past ten you have to start worrying about their friends instead of simply shooing the intruders off the doorstep,and to settle down to a steady ten years of criticism of everything you’ve ever thought or done or worn. Boys, it seems,may be less of a trial then girls,since they can’t get pregnant and they don’t borrow your clothes—if they do borrow your clothes, of course,you’ve got even more to worry about.
The young don’t respect their parents any more,that’s what. Goodness,how sad. still,like eating snails, it might be all right once you’ve got over the idea:it might let us off having to bother quite so much with them when the time comes. But one is simply not going to be able to drone away one’s days,toothless by the fire,brooding on the past.
When the children leave home,the writer thinks that_____.
选项
A、there will be compensations
B、she will be delighted
C、she will be desolated
D、there will be nothing to do
答案
B
解析
题目问:当孩子们离开家时,作者认为什么?通过第三段内容可知,作者幻想当孩子们长大时,她就可以自由自在地做想做的事情。因此她是快乐的。所以,答案是B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yChO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
BeforehighschoolteacherKimberlyRughgotdowntobusinessatthestartofarecentschoolweek,shejokedwithherstudents
ThebeginningofwhatwastobecometheUnitedStateswascharacterizedbyinconsistenciesinthevaluesandbehaviorofitspop
For【36】thebloodshedandtragedyofD-Day,thebeachesofNormandywillalwaysevokeacertain【37】:ayearningforatimewhenn
What______aboutthatarticleinthenewspaperwasthatitswritershowedanattitudecoolenough,professionalenoughand,the
Therearemanybenefitstousingonlinedistancelearningenvironments.Onlineeducationisavailableanyplace,anytimeforgl
(81)TheagreementisoverseenbytheCommitteeonAgriculturewhichreviewsprogressintheimplementationofcommitments,and
Youshouldspendnomorethan20minutesonthistask.Youandyourfamilyhaddinnerinarestaurantafewnightsago.The
Nomatterwhathesaidtoyou,hismannershowedan______thathedidnotactuallyagreewiththeproposal.
Onleavingschoolhebecameanoffice-boyandhavingno______torisehigher,heonlywastedhistime.
Vostokisclosetothecoldestspotintheworld,wherean______minus128.6°Fwasrecordedin1983.
随机试题
根据我国《著作权法》,下列对图书出版者享有的专有出版权的表述正确的是()
()是两种目标的互不相容和互相排斥激化的表现。
简述微粒污染对人体的危害。
患者,女,34岁,初产妇。妊娠32周,口服葡萄糖耐量试验OGTT3项阳性,诊断为妊娠合并糖尿病,经控制饮食后尿糖(±)。首选的处理措施是
完善的公司法人治理结构可以实现依法最大限度地保护公司股东权益。()
劳动者患病或非因工负伤治疗期间,企业向其支付的病假工资或疾病救济费可低于当地最低工资标准,但不得低于当地最低工资标准的()。
2000年9月,天泉市政府为周某办理了地处水湾村某地块的《集体土地建设用地使用证》(以下简称《土地使用证》),水湾村委会不服,向天泉市法院提起行政诉讼,要求撤销天泉市政府为周某所颁发的《土地使用证》。原告诉称,周某系城镇非农业户口。周某没有向水湾村提出宅基
信用产生于货币作为()职能。
设f(x)=(1+x+x2)esinx,则f’’(0)=______.
Listentothefollowingpassage.WriteinEnglishashortsummaryofaround150wordsofwhatyouhaveheardontheANSWERSHEET
最新回复
(
0
)