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Legends about King Arthur have existed since the 6th century. Stories of the m
Legends about King Arthur have existed since the 6th century. Stories of the m
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Legends about King Arthur have existed since the 6th century. Stories of the man and his doings have grown far beyond anything that could be regarded as factual history. Here are some of the highlights.
Arthur was born as a result of the wizardry of Merlin, who arranged all adulterous liaison between Arthur’s father, King Uther Pendragon, and his lover, a married duchess. Merlin agreed to do this only if the lovers allowed him to bring up the child born of the affair. When Uther Pendragon died some years later, there was confusion in the kingdom about who should inherit the throne. Merlin arranged a pageant where many knights came to try their luck at pulling a sword out of a stone. Whoever successfully extracted the blade was the rightful king. After many a brave knight had tried and failed, Merlin presented the young Arthur who, to everyone’s surprise, easily pulled out the sword.
As king, Arthur established the knightly fellowship of the Round Table at his castle of Camelot, so appear all the other chivalrous knights associated with the king. The knights of the Round Table spent much of their time on the quest for the Holy Grail. The Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, which was allegedly brought to Britain, then somehow lost. It is notoriously hard to get hold of, as finding it requires an almost superhuman degree of moral purity. At last it was the true gentleman Sir Galahad who eventually found it and set off to return it to its rightful place in the Holy Land.
Arthur’s death is a matter of some debate. According to legend, one of Arthur’s less intelligent moves was his decision to marry the Lady Guinevere, who fell in love with Sir Lancelot, and their adultery led to war among the knights of the Round Table, culminating in the Battle of Camlan and Arthur’s mortal woound. After the Battle of Catalan the wounded king was taken to the mysterious isle of Avalon ruled by his sister Morgan Le Faye. She, being skilled in the arts of witchcraft and healing, was apparently meant to cure him. But evidently Arthur thought he had little chance, because he gave his sword, Excalibur, to Sir Bedivere to return to the Lady of the Lake, an enigmatic character from whom Arthur had originally received the blade. Bedivere hurled the sword over the water, where a spooky hand appeared from the lake to catch it, waved it around for a while and then carried it down to the murky depths where, who knows, perhaps it still lies. As for Arthur, we can only conclude that his sister wasn’t such a good doctor. [br] Arthur became the king because ______ .
选项
A、he was the old king’s only son
B、he was supported by many brave knights
C、he was the strongest man in the kingdom
D、he pulled the sword from the stone
答案
D
解析
细节题。第二段说到了Arthur继承王位的过程,他是众人中惟一能将剑从石头里拔出来的人,因此 D是正确答案。选项A说因为“亚瑟是老国王惟一的儿子”,而故事中说明亚瑟是国王的私生子,一直由Merlin抚养,因此这不是理由;选项B“因为他得到许多勇敢骑士的支持”,这是在他成为亚瑟王之后;选项C说“他是王国中最强壮的人”,也未必正确,因为文中暗示Merlin设计了这次从石里拔剑的竞赛,故意让亚瑟赢的。
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