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  3. And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast against the thorn. All night lo

And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast against the thorn. All night lo

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问题     And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast against the thorn. All night long she sang with her breast against the thorn, and the cold crystal Moon leaned down and listened. All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her.
    She sang first of the birth of love in the heart of a boy and a girl. And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song. Pale was it, at first, as the mist that hangs over the river—pale as the feet of the morning, and silver as the wings of the dawn. As the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, as the shadow of a rose in a water-pool, so was the rose that blossomed on the topmost spray of the Tree.
    But the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn. "Press closer, little Nightingale," cried the Tree, "or the Day will come before the rose is finished."
    So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her song, for she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid.
    And a delicate flush of pink came into the leaves of the rose, like the flush in the face of the bridegroom when he kisses the lips of the bride. But the thorn had not yet reached her heart, so the rose’s heart remained white, for only a Nightingale’s heart’s-blood can crimson the heart of a rose.
    And the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn. "Press closer, little Nightingale," cried the Tree, "or the Day will come before the rose is finished."
    So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
    And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
    But the Nightingale’s voice grew fainter, and her little wings began to beat, and a film came over her eyes. Fainter and fainter grew her song, and she felt something choking her in her throat.
    Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air.
    "Look, look!" cried the Tree, "the rose is finished now"; but the Nightingale made no answer, for she was lying dead in the long grass, with the thorn in her heart.
    And at noon the Student opened his window and looked out.
    "Why, what a wonderful piece of luck!" he cried; "here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that 1 am sure it has a long Latin name"; and he leaned down and plucked it.
    Then he put on his hat, and ran up to the Professor’s house with the rose in his hand.
    The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet.
    "You said that you would dance with me if I brought you a red rose," cried the Student. "Here is the reddest rose in all the world. You will wear it tonight next your heart, and as we dance together it will tell you how I love you."
    But the girl frowned.
    "I am afraid it will not go with my dress," she answered; "and, besides, the Chamberlain’s nephew has sent me some real jewels, and everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers."
    "Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful," said the Student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it.
    "Ungrateful!" said the girl. "I tell you what, you are very rude; and, after all, who are you? Only a Student.
    "What I a silly thing Love is," said the Student as he walked away. "It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics."
                                                                By Oscar Wilde
According to the article, what’s the author’s intention?
选项 A、To show admiration for nightingale’s heroic deeds.
B、To reveal the merciless truth that love does not exist.
C、To show the disillusioned fact that idealism is actually overshadowed by realism.
D、To tell a fairytale that pacifies the wretched soul of adults.
答案C
解析 本题为主旨题。此题要求找出作者的意图是什么。选项A是“赞美夜莺的英雄事迹”，只说出了其中一部分，忽略了学生的爱情故事部分；选项B是“表达爱情不存在的无情现实”，作者显然不是仅仅为了表达这个冷酷的现实，因为文章中还有很多浪漫唯美的成分；选项D是“讲述一个抚慰成人心灵的童话故事”，这个没有讲到重点，这篇童话故事显然不是那么简单；而选项C是“展示理想主义在现实主义面前不堪一击的幻灭”，我们根据文章的悲剧情调，可以看出，选项C是比较合适的答案。
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