练习题 · 英文原题 · SEL-RE-TST-S2-q1
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 second verse, Dad's work shirts are "flinging up their arms". The poet presents the shirts as if they are
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答案: D
Answer: D
The line goes on: "as if the whole street had scored a goal". People fling up their arms like this when they cheer a goal, so the shirts are pictured as excited fans celebrating.
Why the other options are wrong
- A: Struggling against the pegs describes the socks 'kicking at nothing', not the shirts.
- B: Raised arms can mean surrender, but the next line links them to scoring a goal.
- C: It is the towels that 'try to leave', not the shirts.