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  3. Passage One (1) He made no answer; but had risen into a sitting posture

Passage One (1) He made no answer; but had risen into a sitting posture

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问题     Passage One
    (1)  He made no answer; but had risen into a sitting posture on the sofa where he had been lying, and leaned forward with an arm on each knee, staring at the ground. He could not master his own attention for a minute together. It rushed away where it would, but it never, for an instant, lost itself in sleep.
    (2)  He drank a quantity of wine after dinner, in vain. No such artificial means would bring sleep to his eyes. His thoughts, more incoherent, dragged him more unmercifully after them—as if a wretch, condemned to such expiation (赎罪), were drawn at the heels of wild horses. No oblivion, and no rest.
    (3)How long he sat, drinking and brooding, and being dragged in imagination hither and thither, no one could have told less correctly than he. But he knew that he had been sitting a long time by candle-light, when he started up and listened, in a sudden terror.
    (4)  For now, indeed, it was no fancy. The ground shook, the house rattled, the fierce impetuous rush was in the air! He felt it come up, and go darting by; and even when he had hurried to the window, and saw what it was, he stood, shrinking from it, as if it were not safe to look.
    (5)  A curse upon the fiery (火一般的) devil, thundering along so smoothly, tracked through the distant valley by a glare of light and lurid smoke, and gone! He felt as if he had been plucked out of its path, and saved from being torn asunder. It made him shrink and shudder (颤抖) even now, when its faintest hum was hushed, and when the lines of iron road he could trace in the moonlight, running to a point, were as empty and as silent as a desert.
    (6)  Unable to rest, and irresistibly attracted—or he thought so—to this road, he went out, and lounged on the brink of it, marking the way the train had gone, by the yet smoking cinders that were lying in its track. After a lounge of some half hour in the direction by which it had disappeared, he turned and walked the other way— still keeping to the brink of the road—past the inn garden, and a long way down; looking curiously at the bridges, signals, lamps, and wondering when another Devil would come by.
    (7)  A trembling of the ground, and quick vibration in his ears; a distant shriek (尖叫声); a dull light advancing, quickly changed to two red eyes, and a fierce fire, dropping glowing coals; an irresistible bearing on of a great roaring and dilating mass; a high wind, and a rattle—another come and gone, and he holding to a gate, as if to save himself!
    (8)  He waited for another, and for another. He walked back to his former point, and back again to that, and still, through the wearisome vision of his journey, looked for these approaching monsters. He loitered about the station, waiting until one should stay to call there; and when one did, and was detached for water, he stood parallel with it, watching its heavy wheels and brazen front, and thinking what a cruel power and might it had. Ugh! To see the great wheels slowly turning, and to think of being run down and crushed!
    (9)  Disordered with wine and want of rest—that want which nothing, although he was so weary, would appease—these ideas and objects assumed a diseased importance in his thoughts.  When he went back to his room, which was not until near midnight, they still haunted him, and he sat listening for the coming of another.
    (10)  So in his bed, whither he repaired with no hope of sleep. He still lay listening; and when he felt the trembling and vibration, got up and went to the window, to watch (as he could from its position) the dull light changing to the two red eyes, and the fierce fire dropping glowing coals, and the rush of the giant as it fled past, and the track of glare and smoke along the valley. Then he would glance in the direction by which he intended to depart at sunrise, as there was no rest for him there; and would lie down again, to be troubled by the vision of his journey, and the old monotony of bells and wheels and horses’ feet, until another came. This lasted all night. So far from resuming the mastery of himself, he seemed, if possible, to lose it more and more, as the night crept on. When the dawn appeared, he was still tormented with thinking, still postponing thought until he should be in a better state; the past, present, and future all floated confusedly before him, and he had lost all power of looking steadily at any one of them.
    (11)   "At what time," he asked the man who had waited on him over-night, now entering with a candle, "do I leave here, did you say?"
    (12)   "About a quarter after four, sir.  Express comes through at four, sir. —It don’t stop. "
    (13)   He passed his hand across his throbbing head, and looked at his watch. Nearly half-past three.
    (14)   "Nobody going with you, sir, probably," observed the man. "Two gentlemen here, sir, but they’re waiting for the train to London. "
    (15)   "I thought you said there was nobody here," said Carker, turning upon him with the ghost of his old smile, when he was angry or suspicious.
    (16)  "Not then, sir. Two gentlemen came in the night by the short train that stops here, sir. Warm water, sir?"
    (17)  "No; and take away the candle. There’s day enough for me. "
    (18)  Having thrown himself upon the bed, half-dressed he was at the window as the man left the room. The cold light of morning had succeeded to night and there was already, in the sky, the red suffusion of the coming sun. He bathed his head and face with water—there was no cooling influence in it for him—hurriedly put on his clothes, paid what he owed, and went out. [br] It can be inferred from Para. 2 that the man was deeply troubled by________.
选项 A、alcoholism
B、insomnia
C、scratches
D、amnesia
答案 B
解析 推断题。根据题干提示定位至第二段。该段前两句提到男人晚饭后喝了许多酒，但只是徒劳，这种人为的方法并不能使他合眼睡去，这表明男人难以入睡。该段最后一句提到没有忘却，也没有休息，进一步强调了男人的睡眠有问题，由此可知，男人深受失眠的困扰。故[B]为答案。该段前两句虽然提到男人喝了许多滔酒，但他的目的是让自己入睡，因此，酗酒并非令他困扰的问题，故排除[A]；该段第三句破折号后面的部分是一个比喻句，男人并不是真的被拖在野马身后，原文也未提及他因此而被擦伤，故排除[C]；最后一句虽然提到忘却，但是指男人无法忘记脑海中的胡思乱想，而不是指男人有健忘症，[D]与原文表述相反，故排除。
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