2018英语专八阅读理解练习题及答案(七)

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  He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet,tall,and dark,and to many people she seemed very beautiful.Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor.Within a year after the marriage she died.

  The knuckles of the doctor's hands were extraordinarily large.When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife's death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window.Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.

  Winesburg had forgotten the old man,but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine.Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store,he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed.Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

  Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years.It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows.In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper.After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls,and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend,another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery.Sometimes,in a playful mood,old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "'That is to confound you, you blithering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter.

  The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to him is a very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot.The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers. They have been put in barrels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, magazines, furniture, and people.On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected.They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy’s hands.One nibbles at them and they are delicious.Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

  The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon.He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away.The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded grey horse and went slowly along country roads.On the papers were written thoughts,ends of thoughts,beginnings of thoughts.

  One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts.Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind.The truth clouded the world.It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.

  The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy because she was in the family way and had become frightened.She was in that condition because of a series of circumstances also curious.

  The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost every evening. Except two they were all alike. They talked to her of passion and there was a strained eager quality in their voices and in their eyes when they looked at her. The two who were different were much unlike each other. One of them, a slender young man with white hands, the son of a jeweler in Winesburg, talked continually of virginity. When he was with her he was never off the subject. The other, a black-haired boy with large ears, said nothing at all but always managed to get her into the darkness, where he began to kiss her.

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