問題詳情

Passage #3 (Questions 51-55)  No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation inlife, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was aclergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard--and he had never beenhandsome. He had a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking uphis daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a goodconstitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on--lived to have six children more--to see them growing up around her, and to enjoyexcellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legsenough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine,for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, andstrong features:--so much for her person;--and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boys’plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse,feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rosebush. Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it waschiefly for the pleasure of mischief--at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden totake--Such were her propensities--her abilities were quite as extraordinary. She never could learn or understand any thingbefore she was taught; and sometimes not even then, for she was often inattentive, and occasionally stupid . . .
51. The third sentence in the selection (lines 2─4) implies all of the following EXCEPT
(A) Despite her father, Catherine was destined for heroic exploits.
(B) Richard, at the time this passage was written, was a pedestrian name.
(C) Catherine is an unlikely heroine.
(D) Good looks are important in the society being described.
(E) Clergymen were held in high respect.

參考答案

答案：E
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(1),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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