单选题 TYRONE:[mechanically]Drink hearty, lad.[They drink. Tyrone again listens to sounds upstairs—with dread]She" s moving around a lot. I hope to God she doesn" t come down.EDMUND;[dully]Yes. She"ll be nothing but a ghost haunting the past by this time.[He pauses—then miserably]Back before I was born—TYRONE : Doesn"t she do the same with me? Back before she ever knew me. You" d think the only happy days she" s ever known were in her father" s home, or at the Convent, praying and playing the piano.[Jealous resentment in his bitterness]As I" ve told you before, you must take her memories with a grain of salt. Her wonderful home was ordinary enough. Her father wasn" t the great, general, noble Irish gentleman she makes out. He was a nice enough man, good company and a good talker. I liked him and he liked me. He was prosperous enough, too, in his wholesale grocery business, an able man. But he had his weakness. She condemns my drinking but she forgets his. It" s true he never touched a drop till he was forty, but after that he made up for lost time. He became a steady champagne drinker, the worst kind. That was his grand pose, to drink only champagne. Well, it finished him quick—that and the consumption—[He stops with a guilty glance at his son.]EDMUND; We don"t seem able to avoid unpleasant topics, do we?TYRONE: No.[then with apathetic attempt at heartiness]What do you say to a game or two of Casino, lad?EDMUND: All right.TYRONE:[shuffling the cards clumsily]We can"t lock up and go to bed till Jamie comes on the last trolley—which I hope he won " t—and I don" t want to go upstairs, anyway, till she" s asleep.EDMUND; Neither do I.
单选题 The selection is from Eugene O" Neill" s towering family drama entitled______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:题目中的这段场景节选自Eugene O’Neill(尤金·奥尼尔)著名的自传性剧作LongDay’s Journey into Night(《长夜漫漫路迢迢》),该剧是奥尼尔青春岁月和家庭生活的真实写照:父亲由于害怕以前的贫穷日子,因此治家非常吝啬和严厉;母亲沉溺于毒品;哥哥是个酒鬼;奥尼尔又染上了肺结核。
单选题 In this selection, "she" is______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:“she”指的是剧中的母亲,她染上了毒品。
单选题 Why does Tyrone feel guilty at the end of the selection?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:Tyrone是剧中的父亲,他让儿子对母亲Mary说的话不要全信,不要真的以为母亲未婚之前在家里的生活是唯一快乐的日子,她的父亲并不像她所说的那样完美。Tyrone实际上是想推卸责任,不想让儿子认为是自己导致了Mary现在的痛苦。但是说完之后又觉得有些惭愧。