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(“Mr. Home was a stern-featured—perhaps I should rather say, a hard-featured man: his forehead was knotty, and his cheekbones were

marked and prominent. The character of his face was quite Scotch; but there was feeling in his eye, and emotion in his now agitated

countenance. His northern accent in speaking harmonised with his physiognomy. He was at once proud-looking and homely-looking. He laid his hand on the child's uplifted head. She said—\) primarily serves to????????

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A demonstrate the duality of his character. B emphasize his hard, cold nature. C show the strong and obvious love he has for Paulina. D reinforce his state of confusion.

QUESTION 7 OF 11

Based on the narrator’s initial reaction to Mr. Home, it can be reasonably inferred that the narrator assumes Mr. Home is????????

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A Paulina’s father. B an acquaintance of Mrs. Bretton. C a stranger. D a servant named Warren.

QUESTION 8 OF 11

Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question???

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A lines 18–20 (“Perhaps . . . enough”)(“perhaps Warren was in the way and obeyed her behest, which would be impetuous enough.”) B lines 30–31 (“I . . . withdraw”)(“I concluded he would leave her in a servant's charge and withdraw;”) C lines 33–34 (“His . . .Mrs. Bretton”)(“His reception

immediately explained that he was known to Mrs. Bretton.”) D lines 44–45 (“How . . . face”)(“\the reply, as she leaned on his knee, and gazed up into his face.”) Find more here at

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QUESTION 9 OF 11

Based on the description of Mr. Home’s encounter with Mrs. Bretton, it can reasonably be inferred that????

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A Mrs. Bretton has attempted to prevent Mr. Home from seeing Paulina. B Mr. Home feels comfortable enough with Mrs. Bretton to address her by a nickname.

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Exercise 255This passage is adapted from Mark Twain, \published in 1872.Line5101520253035404550My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory—an of?ce of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of \wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his ?nancial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word \charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and have ever such a ?ne time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside. And by and by he would become very rich, and return home by sea, and be able to talk as calmly about San Francisco and the ocean, and \as if it was nothing of any consequence to have seen those marvels face to face.What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe. And so, when he offered me, in cold blood, the sublime position of private secretary under him, it appeared to me that the heavens and the earth passed away, and the ?rmament was rolled together as a scroll! I had nothing more to desire. My contentment was complete.At the end of an hour or two I was ready for the journey. Not much packing up was necessary, because we were going in the overland stage from the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and passengers were only allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece. There was no Paci?c railroad in those ?ne times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only proposed to stay in Nevada three months—I had no thought of staying longer than that. I meant to see all I could that was new and strange, and then hurry home to business. I little thought that I would not see the end of that three-month pleasure excursion for six or seven uncommonly long years!I dreamed all night about Indians, deserts, and silver bars, and in due time, next day, we took shipping at the St. Louis wharf on board a steamboat bound up the Missouri River.We were six days going from St. Louis to \that was so dull, and sleepy, and eventless that it has left no more impression on my memory than if its duration had been six minutes instead of that many days. No record is left in my mind, now, concerning it, but a confused jumble of savage-looking snags, which our boat deliberately walked over with 60one wheel* or the other; and of reefs which we butted and butted, and then retired from and climbed over in some softer place; and of sand-bars which we roosted on occasionally, and rested, and then got out our crutches and sparred over.In fact, the boat might almost as well have gone to St. Jo. by land, for she was walking most of the time, anyhow—climbing over reefs and clambering over snags patiently and laboriously all day long. The captain said she was a \boat, and all she wanted was more \wheel. I thought she wanted a pair of stilts, but I had the deep sagacity not to say so.*The narrator is on a paddle steamer, a boat that uses steam power to turn a large wheel in the rear of the boat.QUESTION 1 OF 11Over the course of the passage, the main focus shifts from???????????????? A the narrator’s view on his brother’s job to the narrator’s hopes for his own trip. B the narrator’s jealousy of his brother to the narr …… 此处隐藏：8094字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……