首页
登录
职称英语
A week of heavy reading had passed since the evening he first met Ruth Morse
A week of heavy reading had passed since the evening he first met Ruth Morse
游客
2023-12-07
53
管理
问题
A week of heavy reading had passed since the evening he first met Ruth Morse, and still he dared not call. Time and again he nerved himself up to call, but under the doubts that assailed him his determination died away. He did not know the proper time to call, nor was there any one to tell him, and he was afraid of committing himself to an irretrievable blunder. Having shaken himself free from his old companions and old ways of life, and having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read, and the long hours he devoted to it would have ruined a dozen pairs of ordinary eyes. But his eyes were strong, and they were backed by a body superbly strong. Furthermore, his mind was fallow. It had lain fallow all his life so far as the abstract thought of the books was concerned, and it was ripe for the sowing. It had never been jaded by study, and it bit hold of the knowledge in the books with sharp teeth that would not let go.
It seemed to him, by the end of the week, that he had lived centuries, so far behind were the old life and outlook. But he was baffled by lack of preparation. He attempted to read books that required years of preliminary specialization. One day he would read a book of antiquated philosophy, and the next day one that was ultra-modern, so that his head would be whirling with the conflict and contradiction of ideas. It was the same with the economists. On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete. He was bewildered, and yet he wanted to know. He had become interested, in a day, in economics, industry, and politics. Passing through the City Hall Park, he had noticed a group of men, in the centre of which were half a dozen, with flushed faces and raised voices, earnestly carrying on a discussion. He joined the listeners, and heard a new, alien tongue in the mouths of the philosophers of the people. One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen. For the first time he heard of socialism, anarchism, and single tax, and learned that there were warring social philosophies. He heard hundreds of technical words that were new to him, belonging to fields of thought that his meagre reading had never touched upon. Because of this he could not follow the arguments closely, and he could only guess at and surmise the ideas wrapped up in such strange expressions. Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that what is is right, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.
Martin Eden’s head was in a state of addlement when he went away after several hours, and he hurried to the library to look up the definitions of a dozen unusual words. And when he left the library, he carried under his arm four volumes: Madam Blavatsky’s "Secret Doctrine," "Progress and Poverty," "The Quintessence of Socialism," and, "Warfare of Religion and Science. " Unfortunately, he began on the "Secret Doctrine. " Every line bristled with many-syllabled words he did not understand. He sat up in bed, and the dictionary was in front of him more often than the book. He looked up so many new words that when they recurred, he had forgotten their meaning and had to look them up again. He devised the plan of writing the definitions in a note-book, and filled page after page with them. And still he could not understand. He read until three in the morning, and his brain was in a turmoil, but not one essential thought in the text had he grasped. He looked up, and it seemed that the room was lifting, heeling, and plunging like a ship upon the sea. Then he hurled the "Secret Doctrine" and many curses across the room, turned off the gas, and composed himself to sleep. Nor did he have much better luck with the other three books. It was not that his brain was weak or incapable; it could think these thoughts were it not for lack of training in thinking and lack of the thought-tools with which to think. He guessed this, and for a while entertained the idea of reading nothing but the dictionary until he had mastered every word in it. [br] For Martin Eden, "an irretrievable blunder" refers to
选项
A、reading books for a week.
B、assailing other people.
C、losing determination.
D、calling Ruth Morse.
答案
D
解析
语义题。由题干中的an irretrievable blunder定位到第一段。文中提到,他(马丁·伊登)不敢打电话、多次鼓起勇气要打电话,但不知道什么时间打电话比较好,也害怕打了之后会酿成无法挽回的错误。这一无法挽救的错误指的就是打电话给Ruth Morse,因此选择[D]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3251963.html
相关试题推荐
MeaninginLiteratureInreadingliteraryworks,we
MeaninginLiteratureInreadingliteraryworks,we
MeaninginLiteratureInreadingliteraryworks,we
MeaninginLiteratureInreadingliteraryworks,we
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
FiveTypesofBooksI.IntroductionA.Readingforinfo
随机试题
HowtoDuckCabinFeversandOtherAchesonaPlane?[A]Onthef
在()中,①用于防止信息抵赖;②用于防止信息被窃取;③用于防止信息被篡改;④用
男性,35岁。行走时被从对面行驶而来的摩托车撞伤腹部1小时。伤后倒地即感腹部持续
根据土地管理法律制度,下列因征收耕地而发生的补偿费用中,归农村集体经济组织所有的
功效为理气化痰,和胃利胆的方剂是A.温胆汤 B.蒿芩清胆汤 C.贝母瓜蒌散
不易使药材发生霉变的成分是A.蛋白质B.淀粉C.树脂D.糖类E.黏液质
通过贷款分类应达到及时发现信贷管理过程中存在的问题,加强贷款管理的目标()
白芍炮制品中,增强养血和脾、止泻作用,适用于肝旺脾虚的是A.生白芍 B.炒白芍
符合下列情形之一,个体工商户应建复式账()。A.注册资金在20万元以上的 B
当分部工程较大或较复杂时,可按( )将分部工程划分为若干子分部工程。A.材料种
最新回复
(
0
)