Question

At exactly eleven Sir Percival knocked and entered, with anxiety and worry in every line of his face. This meeting would decide his future life, and he obviously knew it.

“You may wonder, Sir Percival,” said Laura calmly, “if I am going to ask to be released（免除）from my promise to marry you. I am not going to ask this. I respect my father’s wishes too much.”

His face relaxed a little, but one of his feet kept beating the carpet.

“No, if we are going to withdraw（退出）from our planned marriage, it will be because of your wish, not mine. ”

“Mine?” he said in great surprise. “What reason could I have for withdrawing?”

“A reason that is very hard to tell you,” she answered. “There is a change in me.”

His face went so pale that even his lips lost their color. He turned his head to one side.

“What change?” he asked, trying to appear calm.

“When the promise was made two years ago”, she said, “my love did not belong to anyone. Will you forgive me, Sir Percival, if I tell you that it now belongs to another person?”

“I wish you to understand”, Laura continued, “that I will never see this person again, and that if you leave me, you only allow me to remain a single woman for the rest of my life. All I ask is that you forgive me and keep my secret.”

“I will do both those things,” he said. Then he looked at Laura, as if he was waiting to hear more.

“I think I have said enough to give you reason to withdraw from our marriage,” she added quietly.

“No. You have said enough to make it the dearest wish of my life to marry you,” he said.

1.How did Percival feel during his meeting with Laura?

A. Angry.         B. Calm.         C. Excited.         D. Nervous.

2.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. Laura’s father wished to end her marriage

B. Laura had once promised to marry Percival

C. Percival had been married to Laura for two years

D. Percival asked to be released from the marriage

3.What do you think is the ending of the story?

A. Laura was married to Percival.   

B. Laura was married to another man.

C. Percival was married to another woman. 

D. Both Percival and Laura remained single for the rest of their lives.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.B

3.A

【解析】本文是一部小说的节选，讲述的是一位女士和一位男士已经在父母的安排下订婚， 但是男士自己感觉心里对婚姻有一些不敢肯定，于是晚上来找女士谈话，最后对婚姻男士说出了自己的心里话，并做出肯定的回答。

1.推理判断题。根据第三段His face relaxed a little, but one of his feet kept beating the carpet.可知当时Percival看到Laura的时候非常的紧张nervous。

2.推理判断题。根据第二段中的be released from my promise to marry you可推知他们两个曾经有过婚约，B项正确。

3.推理判断题。根据文章的结尾很显然他们最后结婚了，A项正确。