文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了一个受赞助上大学的女孩子给自己的赞助者写的一封信。告诉对方自己刚到学校,但对学校还不熟悉。写信的人主旨是想表达自己对赞助人的感谢,并表达了自己对现在有规律的生活感觉很好。
Dear Kind - Trustee - Who - Sends - Orphans - to - College,
Here I am! I travelled yesterday for four hours in a train. It’s a funny sensation, isn’t it! I never rode in one before.
College is the biggest, most bewildering place — I get lost whenever I leave my room. I will write you a description later when I’m feeling less muddled; also I will tell you about my lessons. Class don’t begin until Monday morning, and this is Saturday night. But I wanted to write a letter first just to get acquainted (认识).
It seems weird to be writing letters to somebody you don’t know. It seems weird for me to be writing letters at all - I’ve never written more than three or four in my life, so please overlook it if these are not a model kind. Before leaving yesterday morning, Mrs. Lippett and I had a very serious talk. She told me how to behave all the rest of my life, and especially how to behave towards the kind gentleman who is doing so much for me. I must take care to be Very Respectful.
But how can one be very respectful to a person who wishes to be called John Smith? Why couldn’t you have picked out a name with a little personality? I might as well write letters to Dear Hitching - Post or Dear Clothes - Prop.
I have been thinking about you a great deal this simmer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it’s a very comfortable sensation. I must say, however, that when I think about you, my imagination has very little to work upon. There are just three things that I know: I. You are tall. II. You are rich. Ⅲ. You hate girls.
I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl - Hater. Only that’s rather insulting to me. Or Dear Mr. Rich - Man, but that’s insulting to you, as though money were the only important thing about you. Besides, being rich is such a very external quality. Maybe you won’t stay rich all your life! So I’ve decided to call you Dear Daddy - Long - Legs. I hope you won’t mind. It’s just a private pet name we won’t tell Mrs. Lippett.
The ten o’clock bell is going to ring in two minutes. Our day is divided into sections by beels. We eat and sleep and study by bells. It’s very enlivening; I feel like a fire horse all of the time. There is goes! Lights out. Good night.
Observe with what precision I obey rules — due to my training the John Grier Home.
Yours most respectfully,
Jerusha Abbott
To Mr. Daddy - Long - Legs Smith
36. The word “muddled” is closest in meaning to “_________”.
A.depressed | B.familiar |
C.confused | D.distressed |
37. What can we infer from the third paragraph of the letter?
A.Letter writing skills were essential in Jerusha’s society. |
B.Jerusha was reluctant to write a letter to a stranger. |
C.The letters written by Jerusha were always well organized. |
D.Mr. Daddy - Long - Legs Smith was the one Jerusha respected. |
38. Jerusha decided to call the trustee Dear - Long - Legs in order to ________.
A.show her sincere respect for him | B.make them feel closer to each other |
C.represent one of his internal qualities | D.leave a deep impression on him |
39. How did Jerusha feel about the upcoming college life?
A.indifferent | B.anxious |
C.expectant | D.hopeless |