首页
登录
职称英语
I was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowled
I was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowled
游客
2023-11-10
45
管理
问题
I was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember having ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesting, springtime, or falltime. A lack of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages, I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. He considered all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent. The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty- seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.
My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Issac and Betsey Bailey, both coloured, and quite dark. My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather.
My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant — before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an older woman, too old for field labour. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child’s affection towards its mother. [br] The author’s mother told him______.
选项
A、his father was black.
B、his father was white.
C、nothing about his father.
D、his master was his father.
答案
C
解析
此题为细节理解题。据第3段第4句,结合第3段第l、2句可确定C,排除A,B和D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3173870.html
相关试题推荐
Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofa
Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofa
Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofa
Thecountryhasalreadysentupthreeunmannedspacecraft,themostrecent______
Tomanyvisitorstoacountrytheword"city"meansthecapitalcity.Andth
Tomanyvisitorstoacountrytheword"city"meansthecapitalcity.Andth
Tomanyvisitorstoacountrytheword"city"meansthecapitalcity.Andth
Thereasonthathispropertywasconfiscatedbythecountry,it______,wasthat
It’sacommonknowledgethatchalk_________moisturefromtheair.A、getsB、evap
Accordingtothereport,peoplefromwhichcountryworkinthelongesthoursaw
随机试题
Inthefirstincident,thecouplehadplannedtospendtheirweekendtogether__
AirqualityinBritainhasimprovedconsiderablyinthelast30years.Total
Forme,scientificknowledgeisdividedintomathematicalsciences,natural
[originaltext]Oneday,Johnwasdoingsomeshoppinginthemarketwhenhen
风险保留最适用于以下()情形。A.频率低,严重程度高 B.频率高,严重程度
A.骨髓炎 B.伤寒 C.伤寒带菌者 D.慢性菌痢 E.伤寒临床诊断病例
全身性Shwartzman反应促进DIC发生的原因是A.抗凝物质合成障碍B.血液
小王是某商品流通企业的新员工,每月工资2800元,给父母寄500元,租房、吃饭和
下列选项中,关于《商业银行资本管理办法(试行)》提出的最低资本要求说法正确的是(
下列建筑安装工程检验批的质量验收项目中,属于主控项目的是( )。 A.母线槽
最新回复
(
0
)