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At last her efforts bore fruit. Burton was appointed to Santos ,in Brazil, wh
At last her efforts bore fruit. Burton was appointed to Santos ,in Brazil, wh
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At last her efforts bore fruit. Burton was appointed to Santos ,in Brazil, where Isabel might also go. They made their farewell rounds and Isabel learnt Portuguese while she packed up. At Lisbon three-inch cockroaches seethed about the floor of their room. Isabel was caught off her guard, but Burton was brutal," I suppose you think you .look very pretty, standing on that chair and howling at those innocent creatures." Isabel’s reaction was typical. She reflected that ofcourse he was right; if she had to live in a country full of such creatures, and worse, she had better pull herself together. She got down and started lashing out with a slipper, tn two hours she had got a bag of ninety-seven.
On arrival in Brazil she found that Portuguese fauna had been nothing. Now there were spiders, as big as crabs. In the matter of tropical diseases it seems to have ranked with darkest Africa; there were slaves, too, and in a society where men drank brandy for breakfast, no one condemned the habit of chaining mad slave to the roof-top as a sort of domestic pet, or clown. There was cholera too, and the less dramatic but agonizing local boils," so close you could not put a pin through them."
The Emperor found the new Consul and his wife a great addition to the country, and once again Burton’s wonderful conversation held his audience spellbound. But Chic Brazilians looked askance at Isabel wading barefoot in the streams, bottling snakes, painting and doing up a ruined chapel, or accompanying Richard on expeditions to the virgin interior. There were gymnastics and cold baths, and Mass and market," helping Richard with Literature" (his writing was always in capitals to her) and the wearisome pages of Foreign Office reports she was always so loyal and dutiful in copying out for him.
About now, a note of sadness creeps into Isabel’s letters home. We sense an immense loneliness behind the courage with which she always faced life. Richard was going through a particularly trying phase. The explorer was dying hard, strangled in office tape. He would cut loose and disappear for weeks at a time, returning as bitter and restless as when he left. It was she who held everything together and kept up the facade, both with the Foreign Office, who were constanfiy making the most awkward enquiries, and the local society, who were equally curious. There were few diversions for her.
Richard preferred discussing metaphysics and astronomy with the Capuchin monks to going to the local dances. She was learning now to be self-sufficient, to manage, unobtrusively, the practical side of their lives, and to rough it, both physically and emotionally. She had to combine the shadow-like devotion of the Oriental woman with a fighting spirit seldom found in women, and certainly not in most Victorian women. [br] We can conclude that Isabel Burton ______.
选项
A、had been trying to get her husband a job in a place where she could go with him.
B、had been trying to get her husband a job in Brazil.
C、was always trying to plant fruit trees from Brazil.
D、was always trying to make great efforts in Brazil.
答案
A
解析
推理题。文章的开头“At last her effort bore fruit.Burton was appointed to Santos,in Brazil,where Isable might also go.”从“…her effort bore fruit.”可以看出她在一直努力为丈夫找这样的一份工作,她可以随同前往,因此选A。
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