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  3. (1) The day was ended—quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees an

(1) The day was ended—quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees an

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问题    (1) The day was ended—quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds, and read their reports, and drunk their tea, and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides, to forget their bothersome little charges for another month. Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity—and a touch of wistfulness—the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates.
   (2) In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring "Home" to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.
   (3) Jerusha had an imagination—an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn’t take care—but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house: she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.
   Je-ru-sha Ab-bott
   You are wan-ted
   In the of-fice,
   And I think you’d
   Better hurry up!
   (4) Tommy Dillon, who had joined the choir, came singing up the stairs and down the corridor, his chant growing louder as he approached room F. Jerusha wrenched herself from the window and refaced the troubles of life.
   "Who wants me?" she cut into Tommy’s chant with a note of sharp anxiety.
   Mrs. Lippett in the office,
   And I think she’s mad.
   Ah-a-men!
   (5) Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious. Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for an erring sister who was summoned to the office to face an annoyed matron: and Tommy liked Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off.
   (6) Jerusha went without comment, but with two parallel lines on her brow. What could have gone wrong, she wondered. Were the sandwiches not thin enough? Were there shells in the nut cakes? Had a lady visitor seen the hole in Susie Hawthorn’s stocking? Had—O horrors!—one of the cherubic little babes in her own room F "sauced" a Trustee?
   (7) The long lower hall had not been lighted, and as she came downstairs, a last Trustee stood, on the point of departure, in the open door that led to the porte-cochere. Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression of the man—and the impression consisted entirely of tallness. He was waving his arm towards an automobile waiting in the curved drive. As it sprang into motion and approached, head on for an instant, the glaring headlights threw his shadow sharply against the wall inside. The shadow pictured grotesquely elongated legs and arms that ran along the floor and up the wall of the corridor. It looked, for all the world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs.
   (8) Jerusha’s anxious frown gave place to quick laughter. If one could derive any sort of entertainment out of the oppressive fact of a Trustee, it was something unexpected to the good. She advanced to the office quite cheered by the tiny episode, and presented a smiling face to Mrs. Lippett. To her surprise the matron was also, if not exactly smiling, at least appreciably affable: she wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one she donned for visitors.
   (9) "Sit down, Jerusha, I have something to say to you." Jerusha dropped into the nearest chair and waited with a touch of breathlessness. [br] The Matron was______to the children.
选项 A、humorous
B、malicious
C、strict
D、unfriendly
答案 D
解析 文中倒数第五段第二句话提到： “就算是心肠最硬的小孤儿，对一个做错事要被叫去见那个讨厌的女监事的姐姐，还是相当同情的。”可见如果孩子们犯了什么错误，女监事的惩罚会很严厉，故选D。故事中其他关于女监事的描写也可以推断出她对孩子们的态度，如：To her surprise the matron was also，if not exactly smiling，at least appreciably affable；she wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one she donned for visitors．让乔若莎感到奇怪的是，这次女监事虽然不是面带微笑，至少也是友善的、和蔼的。可知平时女监事对孩子们都很苛刻、不友好。
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