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She once said:" When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, ’the end is n
She once said:" When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, ’the end is n
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She once said:" When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, ’
the end is nothing; the road is all.
’ That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the typewriter(打字机) with the thought that one more task had to be done. "
Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor(活力) of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the Great Plains with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers. “It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "
It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold.
A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, country all made to look like a German Christmas card ... But when I come to the open plains, something happens. I’m home. I breathe differently. "
When she said "It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold", Willa Cather meant ______.
选项
A、you either love the place or hate it
B、you decide either to stay or to leave
C、some find the place warm; others find it cold
D、some find the place peaceful; others find it wild
答案
A
解析
句意推测题。在说完这一句后,Cather说明了人们对待大平原的两种不同的感受:许多人认为那里沉闷,而她自己到了那里却有到了家的感觉。结合这一句的字面意思(take hold of指“抓住,吸引”,leave sb. cold指“引不起某人的兴趣”)可知,它指的就是要么喜欢那里,要么不喜欢那里,选[A]。注意,其中的hate并不指“恨”,而指“不喜欢”。
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