首页
登录
职称英语
I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was rai
I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was rai
游客
2024-12-02
40
管理
问题
I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in , singly , or in pairs, till a whole troop of ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of being—dancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from their clever white turnings of their limbs.
Amongst them—though all were delightful—there were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love.
During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragon-fly round some water-lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolizing all longing, and moving one’s heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very movement of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet.
The other child who particularly enchanted me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the scared fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very sprit of movement, one felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joy’s laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture.
I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden.
God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lies deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun , and in certain great works of art—the power to set the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight. [br] Which of the following is NOT the point of the last paragraph?
选项
A、To describe how fantastic the dance is.
B、To express his gratefulness to God.
C、To show his deep feeling after seeing the dance.
D、To share with readers his understanding of the dance.
答案
B
解析
细节题。作者说上帝才会知道孩子们怎么能给我们的心灵带来这么多愉悦,表现出了作者的惊讶和赞美之意。但是文中并没有提到感谢上帝的话。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3870146.html
相关试题推荐
【1】[br]【10】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliterat
【1】[br]【9】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliteratu
【1】[br]【7】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliteratu
【1】[br]【4】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliteratu
【1】[br]【3】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliteratu
【1】[br]【2】[originaltext]Goodafternoon,everyone.Welcometoourliteratu
WhenCarolineMeeberboardedtheafternoontrainforChicago,hertotaloutf
WhenCarolineMeeberboardedtheafternoontrainforChicago,hertotaloutf
Iwastakenbyafriendoneafternoontoatheatre.Whenthecurtainwasrai
Iwastakenbyafriendoneafternoontoatheatre.Whenthecurtainwasrai
随机试题
Thebypassoperation(心脏搭桥手术)【C1】______open-heartsurgeryinwhichthephy
Theword"winner"and"loser"havemanymeanings.Whenwerefertoaperson
Whatdidthemanwanttodiscusswiththewoman?[br][originaltext]M:Oh,Jann
[originaltext]IntheAmericanfamilythehusbandandwifeusuallyshareimp
根据行政诉讼法及其相关理论,下列关于行政诉讼的表述错误的是()。A.抽象行政行为
下列属于商业数据特征的是()。A:准确性 B:及时性 C:完整性 D:多样
人在每一瞬间,将心理活动选择了某些对象而忽略了另一些对象。这一特点指的是注意的(
在销售代理理财产品时,要综合考虑客户所属的人生周期以及相匹配的风险承受能力、客户
()检验虽然可靠,但有些假设不可能或不允许此操作,它是通过实践来检验.通过问题解
以下所列商品,检验合格须加贴验讫标志的有()。A.出口一次性打火机 B.出口
最新回复
(
0
)