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
Very early in the morning, before daybreak for the greater part of the year, the men would throw on their clothes, breakfast on
Very early in the morning, before daybreak for the greater part of the year, the men would throw on their clothes, breakfast on
admin
2010-01-07
47
问题
Very early in the morning, before daybreak for the greater part of the year, the men would throw on their clothes, breakfast on bread and fat, snatch the dinner baskets which had been packed for them overnight, and hurry off across the fields to the farm. Getting the boys off was a more difficult matter. Mothers would have to call and shake and sometimes pull boys of eleven or twelve out of their warm beds in a winter morning.
Most of the young and those in the prime of life were thickset, red-faced men of good medium height and enormous strength, who prided themselves on the weights they could carry and boasted of never having had an ache nor a pain in their lives. The elders stooped, had gnarled and swollen hands and, walked badly, for they felt the effects of a life spent out of doors in all weathers and of the rheumatism which tried most of them. They still spoke the dialect, in which the vowels were not only broadened, but in many words doubled. Boy was "boo-oy," cola "coo-al" and so on. In other words, syllables were slurred and words were run together, as "brenbu’er" for bread and butter. They had hundreds of proverbs and sayings and their talk was stiff with simile. Nothing was ever simply hot, cold or colored; it was "as hot as hell, as cold as ice, as green as grass" or "as yellow as a guinea". To be nervy was to be "like a cat on hot bricks"; to be angry , "mad as a bull", or any one might be "poor as a rat", "sick as a dog" , "as ugly as sin" , "full of the milk of human kindness", or "stinking with pride" .
The men’s incomes were the same to a penny (ten shillings a week); their circumstances, pleasures, and their daily field work were shared in common but in themselves they differed, as other men of their day differed, in country and town. Some were intelligent, others slow in the uptake, some were kind and helpful, others selfish. A stranger would not have found the dry humor of the Scottish peasant, or the racy wit and wisdom of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. These men’s minds were east in a heavier mould and moved more slowly. Yet there were occasional gleams of quiet fun. When Edmund was crying because his pet magpie had flown away one man told him to go and tell Mrs. Andrews about it (she was the village gossip) "and you’ll soon know where she’s been seen."
Their favorite virtue was endurance. Not to flinch from pain or hardship was their ideal. A young woman would say to the midwife after her first confinement, "I didn’t flinch, did I? Oh, I do hope I didn’t flinch", and a man would tell how he had taken a piece of fence to fight off a charging bull, and not he but the bull had "flinched."
Most of the younger men were ______.
选项
A、satisfied with their weight and good health
B、boastful of their great height and energy
C、vain about their good health and strength
D、proud of their being able to carry light weights
答案
C
解析
见第二段开头。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/icBsFFFM
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Wherewastheletterprobablyplacedmanyyearsago?
Accordingtothewoman,whywomenaremuchbetteratdealingwithmorethanonethingatatime?
Accordingtothewoman,whatgovernstheclotheswewear?
ThehistoryofresponsestotheworkoftheartistSandroBotticelli(1444—1510)suggeststhatwidespreadappreciationbycritics
A=SectionAB=SectionBC=SectionCSectionAEngineeringstudentsaresupposedtobepracticallyandrationally
A=SectionAB=SectionBC=SectionCSectionAEngineeringstudentsaresupposedtobepracticallyandrationally
What’sthetalkmainlyabout?
Whatisthemaintopicofthislecture?
Whatisthemaintopicofthislecture?
ThetramsthatglidethroughCroydonbydayareevocativeofcontinentalEurope.Theloudandsometimesviolentdrunkennessamon
随机试题
随着欧洲城市的兴起和发展,成为实施城市社会生活管理及工商经营管理有机组成部分的是【】
《黄帝内经》的作用是( )明代医家的作用是( )
在诊疗同意制度中,如果病人方面的意见不统一,医师应当以谁的意见为准
定作人履行设备承揽合同交付原材料后,其原材料发生灭失的,风险由( )承担。
综合布线系统通信线路的地下管道引入房屋建筑的路由和位置,应与房屋建筑()单位协商决定。
三硫化四磷分子的结构研究表明,该分子中没有不饱和键,且各原子的最外层均已到达了八个电子的结构。在一个三硫化四磷分子中含有的共价键个数是()。
在伊索寓言中有个《狐狸与葡萄》的故事,说的是一只狐狸很想得到已经熟透了的葡萄,于是它跳起来去够,结果不够高,于是又跳起来,再跳起来……想吃葡萄而又跳得不够高,这也算是一种“挫折”或“心理压力”了。此时此刻那狐狸该怎么办呢?若是一个劲地跳下去,就是累死也还是
简述北洋政府时期立法活动的特点。
WhatdowemeanbyaperfectEnglishpronunciation?Inone【C1】______thereareasmanydifferentkindsofEnglishastherearesp
Sometimeshalfthedrop-offsatthelocalU-HaulrentalplacescomefromCalifornia.
最新回复
(
0
)