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"The landscape seen from our windows is certainly charming, "said Annabel; "th
"The landscape seen from our windows is certainly charming, "said Annabel; "th
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"The landscape seen from our windows is certainly charming, "said Annabel; "those cherry orchards and green meadows, and the river winding along the valley, and the church tower peeping out among the elms, they all make a most effective picture. There’s something dreadfully sleepy and languorous about it, though; stagnation seems to be the dominant note. Nothing ever happens here; seedtime and harvest, an occasional outbreak of measles or a mildly destructive thunderstorm, and a little election excitement about once in five years, that is all that we have to modify the monotony of our existence. Rather dreadful, isn’t it?"
"On the contrary, "said Matitda, "I find it soothing and restful; but then, you see, I’ve lived in countries where things do happen, ever so many at a time, when you’re not ready for them happening all at once. ""That, of course, makes a difference, "said Annabel.
"I have never forgotten, "said Matilda, "the occasion when the Bishop of Bequar paid us an unexpected visit; he was on his way to lay the foundation-stone of a mission-house or something of the sort. ""I thought that out there you were always prepared for emergency guests turning up, "said Annabel.
"I was quite prepared for half a dozen Bishops, "said Matilda, "but it was rather disconcerting to find out after a little conversation that this particular one was a distant cousin of mine, belonging to a branch of the family that had quarreled bitterly and offensively with our branch about a Crown Derby dessert service; they got it, and we ought to have got it, in some legacy, or else we got it and they thought they ought to have it, I forget which; anyhow, I know they behaved disgracefully."
"It was rather trying, but you could have left your husband to do most of the entertaining. ""My husband was fifty miles up-country, talking sense, or what he imagined to be sense, to a village community that fancied one of their leading men was a were-tiger."
"A what tiger ?" "A were-tiger; you’ve heard of were-wolves, haven’t you, a mixture of wolf and human being and demon? Well, in those parts they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn, and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position."
"I hope you weren’t unkind to the Bishop, "said Annabel. "Well, of course he was my guest, so I had to be outwardly polite to him, but he was tactless enough to rake up the incidents of the old quarrel, and to try to make out that there was something to be said for the way his side of the family had behaved; even if there was, which I don’t for a moment admit, my house was not the place in which to say it. I didn’t argue the matter, but I gave my cook a holiday to go and visit his aged parents some ninety miles away. The emergency cook was not a specialist in curries, in fact, I don’t think cooking in any shape or form could have been one of his strong points. I believe he originally came to us in the guise of a gardener, but as we never pretended to have anything that could be considered a garden he was utilised as assistant goatherd, in which capacity, I understand, he gave every satisfaction. When the Bishop heard that I had sent away the cook on a special and unnecessary holiday he saw the inwardness of the manoeuvre, and from that moment we were scarcely on speaking terms. If you have ever had a Bishop with whom you were not on speaking terms staying in your house, you will appreciate the situation."
Annabel confessed that her life-story had never included such a disturbing experience. [br] When the Bishop of Bequar called on Matilda, she felt quite
选项
A、hectic.
B、distraught.
C、disturbed.
D、pious.
答案
C
解析
细节题。第四段首句指出Matilda对主教来访的感受:当与主教交谈一会儿发现两人是表亲,而两个家族之间又有很大的分歧和隔阂之后,她感到很不安,[C]中的disturbed与首句中的disconcerting同义,故为答案。[A]意为“兴奋的”,不符合文意,排除。[B]意为“极其烦恼的”,程度过重,排除。[D]意为“虔诚的”,不符合此处语境,排除。
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