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  3. (1) He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he

(1) He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he

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问题     (1) He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
    (2) The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches (斑) of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
    (3) Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
    (4) "Santiago, " the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up. "I could go with you again. We’ve made some money. "
    (5) The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
    (6) "No, " the old man said. "You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them."
    (7) "But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks."
    (8) "I remember, " the old man said. "I know you did not leave me because you doubted."
    (9) "It was papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him."
    (10) "I know, " the old man said. "It is quite normal."
    (11) "He hasn’t much faith."
    (12) "No, " the old man said. "But we have. Haven’t we?"
    (13) "Yes, " the boy said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home."
    (14) "Why not?" the old man said. "Between fishermen."
    (15) They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry. Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen.
    (16) When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbor from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odor because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
    (17) "Santiago, " the boy said.
    (18) "Yes, " the old man said. He was holding his glass and thinking of many years ago.
    (19) "Can I go out to get sardines for you for tomorrow?"
    (20) "No. Go and play baseball. I can still row and Rogelio will throw the net."
    (21) "I would like to go. If I cannot fish with you, I would like to serve in some way."
    (22) "You bought me a beer, " the old man said. "You are already a man."
    (23) "How old was I when you first took me in a boat?"
    (24) "Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. Can you remember?"
    (25) "I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing. I can remember you throwing me into the bow where the wet coiled lines were and feeling the whole boat shiver and the noise of you clubbing him like chopping a tree down and the sweet blood smell all over me."
    (26) "Can you really remember that or did I just tell it to you?"
    (27) "I remember everything from when we first went together."
    (28) The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
    (29) "If you were my boy I’d take you out and gamble, " he said. "But you are your father’s and your mother’s and you are in a lucky boat. " (本文选自 The Old Man and the Sea) [br] Santiago rejected the boy’s proposal to return to his ship because________.
选项 A、he didn’t need the assistance of the boy any more
B、he felt disheartened and uncertain about the future
C、he hoped the boy could keep on with good harvest
D、he couldn’t accept the one who had betrayed him
答案 C
解析 细节题原文第四段中，男孩提出可以重新回到老人的船上，而在第六段中，老人明确地反对男孩的提议，理由是男孩现在跟着一条幸运的船。结合前文信息可知，这艘船一向收获颇丰，可见老人反对男孩回来是希望他能继续得到丰厚的收获，故C为答案。由前文可知，老人有很长一段时间都没有收获，而且年迈，男孩经常尽可能地帮助他，故排除A；文中并没有提及老人对于未来的想法和感受，故排除B；从上下文都能看出，尽管男孩按照父母的安排离开了老人的渔船，但是两人之间的感情仍然十分深厚，故排除D。
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