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  3. The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole

The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole

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问题     The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched twilight of a West-End station. A line of doors flew open and a lot of men stepped out headlong. They had high hats, healthy pale faces, dark overcoats and shiny boots; they held in their gloved hands thin umbrellas and hastily folded evening papers that resembled stiff, dirty rags of greenish, pinkish, or whitish color. Alvan Harvey stepped out with the rest, a smoldering cigar between his teeth. A disregarded little woman in rusty black, with both arms full of parcels, ran along in distress, bolted suddenly into a third-class compartment and the train went on. The slamming of carriage doors burst out sharp and spiteful like a fusillade; an icy draught mingled with acrid fumes swept the whole length of the platform and made a tottering old man, wrapped up to his ears in a woolen comforter, stop short in the moving throng to cough violently over his stick. No one spared him a glance.
    Alvan Hervey passed through the ticket gate. Between the bare walls of a sordid staircase men clambered rapidly; their backs appeared alike—almost as if they had been wearing a uniform; their indifferent faces were varied but somehow suggested kinship, like the faces of a band of brothers who through prudence, dignity, disgust, or foresight would resolutely ignore each other; and their eyes, quick or slow; their eyes gazing up the dusty steps; their eyes brown, black, gray, blue, had all the same stare, concentrated and empty, satisfied and unthinking.
    Outside the big doorway of the street they scattered in all directions, walking away fast from one another with the hurried air of men fleeing from something compromising; from familiarity or confidences; from something suspected and concealed—like truth or pestilence. Alvin Harvey hesitated, standing alone in the doorway for a moment; then decided to walk home.
    He strode firmly. A misty rain settled like silvery dust on clothes, on moustaches; wetted the faces, varnished the flagstones, darkened the walls, dripped from umbrellas. And he moved on in the rain with careless serenity, with the tranquil ease of someone successful and disdainful, very sure of himself—a man with lots of money and friends. He was tall, well set-up, good-looking and healthy; and his clear pale face had under its commonplace refinement that slight tinge of overbearing brutality which is given by the possession of only partly difficult accomplishments; by excelling in games, or in the art of making money; by the easy mastery over animals and over needy men.
    He was going home much earlier than usual, straight from the City and without calling at his club. He considered himself well connected, well educated and intelligent. Who doesn’t? But his connections, education and intelligence were strictly on a par with those of the men with whom he did business or amused himself. He had married five years ago. At the time all his acquaintances had said he was very much in love; and he had said so himself, frankly, because it is very well understood that every man falls in love once in his life—unless his wife dies, when it may be quite praiseworthy to fall in love again. The girl was healthy, tall, fair, and in his opinion was well connected, well educated and intelligent. She was also intensely bored with her home where, as if packed in a tight box, her individuality—of which she was very conscious—had no play. She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head. He surrendered quickly to all those charms, and she appeared to him so unquestionably of the right sort that he did not hesitate for a moment to declare himself in love. Under the cover of that sacred and poetical fiction he desired her masterfully, for various reasons; but principally for the satisfaction of having his own way. He was very dull and solemn about it—for no earthly reason, unless to conceal his feelings—which is an eminently proper thing to do. Nobody, however, would have been shocked had he neglected that duty, for the feeling he experienced really was a longing—a longing stronger and a little more complex no doubt, but no more reprehensible in its nature than a hungry man’s appetite for his dinner. [br] We can infer from the first paragraph that
选项 A、the men enjoyed good living condition.
B、Alvin Harvey went off the train leisurely.
C、the old man almost fell over on the platform.
D、the little woman was overloaded with boxes.
答案 A
解析 推断题。首段第三句描述了这些男士的穿着打扮、举止表情“They had high hats．healthy pale faces，dark overcoats and shiny boots；they held in their gloved hands thin umbrellas and hastily folded evening papers that resembled stiff，dirty rags of greenish，pinkish，or whitish color”，句中的healthy以及shiny boots表明这些男士经济状况良好，身体健康，故[A]为答案。第四句指出“AIvan Hervey stepped out with the rest，a smoldering cigar between his teeth．”，这里没有具体描述Ah,an Hervey如何下车，[B]中的leisurely无依据，排除；倒数第二句“an icy draught mingled with acrid fumes swept the whole length of the platform and made a tottering old mall，wrapped up to his ears in a woolen comforter，stop short in the moving throng to cough violently over his stick”表明老人剧烈地咳嗽，但没有说几乎摔倒，[C]无依据；第五句提到“A disregarded little woman in rusty black，with both artist full of parcels，ran along in distress，bolted suddenly into a third—class compartment and the train went on．”，句中提到的是parcels不是boxes，排除[D]。
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