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  3. (1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union Leag

(1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union Leag

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问题    (1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union League Club in Chicago, was a somewhat modified version of the one who had fled from Kansas City three years before. He was now twenty, a little taller and more firmly but scarcely any more robustly built, and considerably more experienced, of course.
   (2) For since leaving his home and work in Kansas City and coming in contact with some rough usage in the world—humble tasks, wretched rooms, no intimates to speak of, plus the compulsion to make his own way as best he might—he had developed a kind of self-reliance and smoothness of address such as one would scarcely have credited him with three years before. There was about him now, although he was not nearly so smartly dressed as when he left Kansas City, a kind of conscious gentility (文雅) of manner which pleased, even though it did not at first arrest attention. Also, and this was considerably different from the Clyde who had crept away from Kansas City in a box car, he had much more of an air of caution and reserve.
   (3) For ever since he had fled from Kansas City, and by one humble device and another forced to make his way, he had been coming to the conclusion that on himself alone depended his future. His family, as he now definitely sensed, could do nothing for him. They were too impractical and too poor—his mother, father, Esta, all of them.
   (4) At the same time, in spite of all their difficulties, he could not now help but feel drawn to them, his mother in particular, and the old home life that had surrounded him as a boy—his brother and sisters, Esta included, since she, too, as he now saw it, had been brought no lower than he by circumstances over which she probably had no more control. And often, his thoughts and mood had gone back with a definite and disconcerting pang (一阵剧痛) because of the way in which he had treated his mother as well as the way in which his career in Kansas City had been suddenly interrupted—his loss of Hortense Briggs—a severe blow; the troubles that had come to him since; the trouble that must have come to his mother and Esta because of him.
   (5) On reaching St. Louis two days later after his flight, and after having been most painfully bundled out (赶，匆忙打发) into the snow a hundred miles from Kansas City in the gray of a winter morning, and at the same time relieved of his watch and overcoat by two brakemen who had found him hiding in the car, he had picked up a Kansas City paper—The Star—only to realize that his worst fear in regard to all that had occurred had come true. For there, under a two-column head, and with fully a column and a half of reading matter below, was the full story of all that had happened; a little girl, the eleven-year-old daughter of a well-to-do (小康的) Kansas City family, knocked down and almost instantly killed—she had died an hour later; Sparser and Miss Sipe in a hospital and under arrest at the same time, guarded by a policeman sitting in the hospital awaiting their recovery; a splendid car very seriously damaged; Sparser’s father, in the absence of the owner of the car for whom he worked, at once incensed (激怒) and made terribly unhappy by the folly and seeming criminality (犯罪行为) and recklessness of his son.
   (6) But what was worse, the unfortunate Sparser had already been charged with larceny (盗窃) and homicide (杀人), and wishing, no doubt, to minimize his own share in this grave catastrophe, had not only revealed the names of all who were with him in the car—the youths in particular and their hotel address—but had charged that they along with him were equally guilty, since they had urged him to make speed at the time and against his will—a claim which was true enough, as Clyde knew. And Mr. Squires, on being interviewed at the hotel, had furnished the police and the newspapers with the names of their parents and their home addresses.
   (7) This last was the sharpest blow of all. For there followed disturbing pictures of how their respective parents or relatives had taken it on being informed of their sins. [br] What can be concluded from Para. 2 about Clyde?
选项 A、He was a dependent young man when in Kansas City.
B、He is dressed better than three years ago.
C、He acts quite differently from the past.
D、He is more cautious and reserved than before.
答案 A
解析 推断题。原文第二段第一句提到，自此以后，克莱德就逐渐变得自力更生和处事圆滑，而这些品质是三年前没有人相信他会具有的，另外第一段第一句指出他三年前从堪萨斯城逃走，由此可以推知，三年前克莱德在堪萨斯城时是不具备自力更生这一品质的，也就是说他是个有依赖性的年轻人，故[A]为答案。第二段第二句指出克莱德的衣着远不如逃离堪萨斯城时那么时髦，由此可知，他的衣着不如三年前好，[B]与原文表述相反，故排除；第二段最后一句直接提及克莱德已变得更加谨慎矜持，跟当初爬进火车货运车厢偷偷离开堪萨斯城的那个克莱德判若两人，无需推断，故[C]和[D]均排除。
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