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  3. (1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union Leag

(1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union Leag

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问题    (1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union League Club in Chicago, was a somewhat modified version of the one who had fled from Kansas City three years before. He was now twenty, a little taller and more firmly but scarcely any more robustly built, and considerably more experienced, of course.
   (2) For since leaving his home and work in Kansas City and coming in contact with some rough usage in the world—humble tasks, wretched rooms, no intimates to speak of, plus the compulsion to make his own way as best he might—he had developed a kind of self-reliance and smoothness of address such as one would scarcely have credited him with three years before. There was about him now, although he was not nearly so smartly dressed as when he left Kansas City, a kind of conscious gentility (文雅) of manner which pleased, even though it did not at first arrest attention. Also, and this was considerably different from the Clyde who had crept away from Kansas City in a box car, he had much more of an air of caution and reserve.
   (3) For ever since he had fled from Kansas City, and by one humble device and another forced to make his way, he had been coming to the conclusion that on himself alone depended his future. His family, as he now definitely sensed, could do nothing for him. They were too impractical and too poor—his mother, father, Esta, all of them.
   (4) At the same time, in spite of all their difficulties, he could not now help but feel drawn to them, his mother in particular, and the old home life that had surrounded him as a boy—his brother and sisters, Esta included, since she, too, as he now saw it, had been brought no lower than he by circumstances over which she probably had no more control. And often, his thoughts and mood had gone back with a definite and disconcerting pang (一阵剧痛) because of the way in which he had treated his mother as well as the way in which his career in Kansas City had been suddenly interrupted—his loss of Hortense Briggs—a severe blow; the troubles that had come to him since; the trouble that must have come to his mother and Esta because of him.
   (5) On reaching St. Louis two days later after his flight, and after having been most painfully bundled out (赶，匆忙打发) into the snow a hundred miles from Kansas City in the gray of a winter morning, and at the same time relieved of his watch and overcoat by two brakemen who had found him hiding in the car, he had picked up a Kansas City paper—The Star—only to realize that his worst fear in regard to all that had occurred had come true. For there, under a two-column head, and with fully a column and a half of reading matter below, was the full story of all that had happened; a little girl, the eleven-year-old daughter of a well-to-do (小康的) Kansas City family, knocked down and almost instantly killed—she had died an hour later; Sparser and Miss Sipe in a hospital and under arrest at the same time, guarded by a policeman sitting in the hospital awaiting their recovery; a splendid car very seriously damaged; Sparser’s father, in the absence of the owner of the car for whom he worked, at once incensed (激怒) and made terribly unhappy by the folly and seeming criminality (犯罪行为) and recklessness of his son.
   (6) But what was worse, the unfortunate Sparser had already been charged with larceny (盗窃) and homicide (杀人), and wishing, no doubt, to minimize his own share in this grave catastrophe, had not only revealed the names of all who were with him in the car—the youths in particular and their hotel address—but had charged that they along with him were equally guilty, since they had urged him to make speed at the time and against his will—a claim which was true enough, as Clyde knew. And Mr. Squires, on being interviewed at the hotel, had furnished the police and the newspapers with the names of their parents and their home addresses.
   (7) This last was the sharpest blow of all. For there followed disturbing pictures of how their respective parents or relatives had taken it on being informed of their sins. [br] Which of the following statements is NOT Clyde’s view on his family?
选项 A、His family is of no help to his future.
B、His family lives a poor and unrealistic life.
C、Esta couldn’t control her own destiny.
D、He feels regretful for how he treated Esta.
答案 D
解析 细节题。原文第四段第二句提到克莱德常常满怀痛苦地回忆过去，这是因为当初他对待母亲的方式，还有他在堪萨斯城的事业突然中断，这表明克莱德后悔的是自己以前如何对待母亲而不是妹妹伊斯塔，由此可知，[D]与原文不符，故为答案。第三段前两句提到，自从逃离堪萨斯城以来，依靠各种各样的诡计，克莱德才勉强谋生，他得出了一个结论，他的前程只能靠自己，正如他现在清楚意识到的，他的家人什么也帮不了他，由此可知，克莱德认为家人对他的前程毫无助益，[A]与原文相符，故排除；第三段最后一句指出，克莱德认为家人太不切实际了，也太穷了——他的父亲、母亲、伊斯塔，所有家人都如此，由此可知，[B]在原文直接提及，故排除；第四段第一句提到克莱德现在已明白，伊斯塔早已被她再也无法掌控的命运拖入和他一样的深渊，由此可知，克莱德认为伊斯塔不能掌控自己的命运，故排除[C]。
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