2007 英语专业四级阅读理解答案及详解(2)TEXT C
I am afraid to sleep. I have been afraid to sleep for the last few weeks. I am so tired that, finally, I do sleep, but only for a few minutes. It is not a bad dream that wakes me ; it is the 美好生活的诗句reality I took with me into sleep . I try to think of something el. Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind.
I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her . She was lling skirts. She moved with the same ea and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was lling . In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue ,green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I ud to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.
I don’t know the word for “ribbons”, so I put my hand to my own hair and , with three fingers against my head , I looked at her ribbons and said “Beautiful. ” She lowered her eyes 移动硬盘分区and said nothing. I wasn’t sure if she understood me (I don’t speak Laotian very well).
I looked back down at小字开头的成语 the skirts. They had designs on them: squares and triangles and circles of pink and green silk. They were very pretty. I decided to buy one of tho skirts, and I began to bargain with her over the price. It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.
She smiled, more with her eyes than with her lips. She was plead by the few words I was able to say in her language, although they were mostly numbers, and she saw that I understood something about the soft playfulness of bargaining. We shook our heads in disagreement over the price ; then, immediately, we made another offer and then another shake of the head. She was so plead that unexpectedly, she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too 气魄造句soon. The price was too low. She was being too generous and wouldn’t make enough money. I moved quickly and picked up two more skirts and paid for all three at the price t ; that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purcha. She smiled openly then, and, for the first time in months, my spirit lifted. I almost felt happy.
The feeling stayed with me while she wrapped the skirts in a newspaper and handed them to me. When I left, though, the feeling left, too. It was as though it stayed behind in marketplace. I left tears in my throat. I wanted to cry. I didn’t , of cour.
I have learned to defend mylf against what is hard ; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend mylf against what is soft and
what should be easy.
I get up, light a candle and want to look at the skirts. They are still in the newspaper that被遗弃的公主 the woman wrapped them in. I remove the paper, and rai the skirts up to look at them again before I pack them. Something falls to floor. I reach down and feel something cool in my hand. I move clo to the candlelight to e what I have. There are five long silk ribbons in my hand, all different colors. The woman in the marketplace! She has given the ribbons to me!
There is no defen against a generous spirit, and this time I cry, and very hard, as if I could make up for all the months that I didn’t cry.
89. According to the writer, the woman 逼字in the marketplace ____B____ .
A. refud to speak to her.
B. was pleasant and attractive.
C. was lling skirts and ribbons.
D. recognized her immediately.
解析：B。根据第 3 段对她的细节描写。 “She moved with the same ea and loveliness … Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was lling . In 项目总监岗位职责her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue ,green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I ud to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair. ” 由此可见，作者对她的印象是愉快的。
90. Which of the following in NOT correct? ____A____
A. The writer was not ud to bargaining.
B. People in Asia always bargain when buying things.
梁志毅C. Bargaining in Laos was quiet and peaceful.
D. The writer was ready to bargain with the woman.
解析：A。第 5 段 “It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness. ” (在亚洲，人们有讨价还价的习俗。在老挝，人们讨 价还价时总是轻言细语) ，由此可知，B、C、D 是正确的。作者了解当地的习 俗，所以很自然地开始bargain，所以 A 选项不对。
