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  3. When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat fo

When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat fo

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问题       When his daughter Mary went out for her evening walk Doctor Cochran sat for an hour alone m his office. It began to grow dark and the man who all afternoon had been sitting on chairs and boxes before the livery barn across the street went home for the evening meal. The noise of voices grew faint and sometimes for five or ten minutes there was silence. Then from some distant street came a child’s cry. Presently church bells began to ring.
      The Doctor was not a very neat man and sometimes for several days he forgot to shave. With a long lean hand he stroked his half grown beard. His illness had struck deeper than he had admitted even to himself and his mind had an inclination to float out of his body. Often when he sat thus his hands lay in his lap and he looked at them with a child’s absorption. It seemed to him they must belong to someone else. He grew philosophic." It’s an odd thing about my body. Here I’ve lived in it all these years and how little use I have had of it. Now it’s going to die and decay never having been used. I wonder why it did not get
another tenant." He smiled sadly over this fancy but went on with it. "Well I’ve had thoughts enough con- cerning people and I’ve had the use of these lips and a tongue but I’ve let them lie idle. When my Ellen was here living with me I let her think me cold and unfeeling while something within me was straining and straining trying to tear itself loose.”①
     He remembered how often, as a young man, he had sat in the evening in silence beside his wife in this same office and how his hands had ached to reach across the narrow space that separated them and touch her hands, her face, her hair. ②
     Well, everyone in town had predicted his marriage would turn out badly! His wife had been an actress with a company that came to Huntersburg and got stranded there. At the same time, the girl became ill and had no money to pay for her room at the hotel. The young doctor had attended to that and when the girl was convalescent took her to ride about the country in his buggy. Her life had been a hard one and the notion of leading a quiet existence in the little town appealed to her.
     And then after the marriage and after the child was born she had suddenly found herself unable to go on living with the silent cold man. There had been a story of her having run away with a young sport, the son of a saloon keeper who had disappeared from town at the same time, but the story was untrue。③ Lester Cochran had himself taken her to Chicago where she got work with a company going into the far western states. Then he had taken her to the door of her hotel, had put money into her hands and in silence and without even a farewell kiss had turned and walked away.
     The Doctor sat in his office living over that moment and other intense moments when he had been deeply stirred and had been on the surface so cool and quiet. He wondered if the woman had known. How many times he had asked himself that question. After he left her that night at the hotel door she never wrote. “Perhaps she is dead,” he thought for the thousandth time. [br] The phrase "got stranded" in paragraph 4 probably means ______.
选项 A、got lost
B、got stuck
C、went bankrupt
D、closed down
答案 B
解析 语义理解题。第四段介绍了医生和妻子结合的过程。第二句指出His wife had been an actress with a company that came to Huntersburg and got stranded there．从下一句At the same time the girl became ill and had no money to pay for her room at the hotel．可知她所在的公司一定是遇到了麻烦，才无力帮助她治病，支付旅馆账单的，got stuck“进退维谷”符合该处语境，故为答案。选项C “破产”和选项D “倒闭”均过于具体，got stuck将这两种可能性都包括在内，上下文处没有具体说明该公司出现了什么状况，排除C 和 D 。选项A “迷路了”不符合该处语义衔接关系，排除。
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