练习题 · 英文原题 · SEL-RE-TST-S2-q2
Westerly
The westerly arrives before breakfast, shouldering the side gate open, rattling the pegs in their bucket like a pocketful of loose change.
By nine the line is a ship in full sail: sheets bellying out, white and enormous, Dad's work shirts flinging up their arms as if the whole street had scored a goal.
The towels try to leave. The socks cling on by a single peg each, small and stubborn, kicking at nothing. Mum holds the basket on her hip and laughs into the wind until it steals the laugh as well.
All day the wind takes, and takes, and takes: leaves from the gutter, the dog's good mood, a tea towel we will never see again.
Then, near dusk, it simply stops. The sheets hang down, exhausted, quiet. I carry them in against my chest, still warm, smelling of sun and distance, and fold the whole wild day into squares.
In the line "All day the wind takes, and takes, and takes", the word "takes" is repeated in order to
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答案: A
Answer: A
Saying "takes" three times makes the taking sound endless, and the list that follows (leaves, the dog's good mood, a tea towel) shows the wind snatching one thing after another all day long.
Why the other options are wrong
- B: The poem's mood is playful, not frightening: Mum laughs into the wind and the things taken are small and funny.
- C: Leaves, a dog's mood and a tea towel are light, humorous losses, not things the family truly valued.
- D: The calm only arrives in the next verse, when the wind 'simply stops'; this line is about the busy day.
