首页
登录
职称英语
When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarce
When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarce
游客
2024-10-04
42
管理
问题
When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the hour.
To his great astonishment, the heavy bell went on from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve!
He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse beat twelve, and stopped. "Why, it isn’t possible," said Scrooge, "that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night. It isn’t possible that anything has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon! "
The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window. He was obliged to rub the frost off with the sleeve of his dressing-gown before he could see anything; and could see very little then. All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world. This was a great relief, because "Three days after sight of this First of Exchange pay to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or his order," and so forth, would have become a mere United States security if there were no days to count by.
Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over, and could make nothing of it. The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and, the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.
Marley’s Ghost bothered him exceedingly. Every time he resolved within himself, after mature enquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all through, "Was it a dream or not?"
Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three-quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one. He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to heaven, this was, perhaps, the wisest resolution in his power.
The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon his listening ear.
"Ding, dong! "
"A quarter past," said Scrooge, counting.
"Ding, dong! "
"Half past," said Scrooge.
"Ding, dong! "
"A quarter to it," said Scrooge.
"Ding, dong! "
"The hour itself," said Scrooge triumphantly, "and nothing else! "
He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn. [br] Marley’s Ghost kept Scrooge thinking that
选项
A、what he saw was nothing but a dream.
B、all that happened was more than a dream.
C、spring would come soon.
D、spring would never come.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的Marley’s Ghost定位到第6段。该段最后一句Was it a dream or not?表明Scrooge总在想所遇到的一切是否只是梦,这也意味着他觉得那一切不只是梦,因此,在A和B之间,B更贴近Scrooge的想法。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/3786029.html
相关试题推荐
Myclassmatesstoodtherelookinguneasilyatme,puzzlingwhyIhadn’tgotanno
______,Mr.Wellsisscarcelyinsympathywiththeworkingclass.[2005]A、Althoug
______atinhisway,thesituationdoesn’tseemsodesperate.[2007]A、LookingB、
WhenScroogeawokeitwassodark,that,lookingoutofbed,hecouldscarce
WhenScroogeawokeitwassodark,that,lookingoutofbed,hecouldscarce
WhenScroogeawokeitwassodark,that,lookingoutofbed,hecouldscarce
Theteacheraswellasthestudents______lookingforwardtothesummerholiday.A
Hewasafunnylookingmanwithacheerfulface,good-naturedandagreatt
TheCopenhagenconferenceislookingtoagreeona(n)______thatwillbebuilto
Nobigdevelopedcountryhascomeoutoftheglobalrecessionlookingstrong
随机试题
Itisimpoliteofachild______whileadultsaretalking.A、tocutinB、tobreak
Forcenturies,philosophersandtheologia
初孕妇,29岁,临产16小时,胎儿娩出后,宫底降至脐平后复又升高达脐上,阴道流血
新疆的国家风景名胜区有()。A.天山天池 B.库木塔格沙漠 C.富蕴可可托
胃镜检查见胃窦部黏膜苍白,皱襞变细,可见黏膜下紫蓝色的血管纹,最可能的诊断是:(
镇总体规划的成果包括( )。A.规划文本和主要图纸及附件 B.城镇体系规划文
工作指导法运用中应注意培训的要点不包括()。A.关键工作环节的要求 B.做好
对扁平苔藓进行治疗应参考以下因素,除了A.有无胶样小体出现 B.病损的临床分型
根据分部组合计价原理,分部工程可依据()等的不同分解为分项工程。A.施工方法
下列钢材包含的化学元素中,其中含量增加会使钢材强度提高,但是塑性下降的有()。
最新回复
(
0
)