閱讀下列短文,從A,B,C,D四個選項中選出一個最佳答案填空。 Ludwig is a scholar.His father's family were from France,and his ,mother's were German.His parents had net soon after the war in France.They soon decided to emigrate to America,but while they were waiting for their visas they first went on a brief visit to England so as to improve their English.Here young Ludwig had achieved an English birth,and with it the right to British nationality,although before his first birthday he was already in the U.S.A.,he grew up happily enough,normally enough,as an American child,his parents joy.Yet ,in his blood,too,old European things lived and waited,and as he became an adult and an intellectual he found himself an unidentified person.His parents,perfectly hi-lingual in French and German,spoke only English at home,laboriously consersing even when they were alone together,in this language which they never fully mastered.Ludwig learnt his French and German at school. When he came at last to Europe,no blood relations awaited him.All had died or scattered.What mainly confronted him was the ghost of Hitler.This and many other things need to be driven out.As a historian wand as a man he needed somehow in thought to go through the whole passion of recent history,but he could not do it.Faced with what he had so significantly missed,his intellect became faint.He remained outside it all and yet burdened by it as by something heavy forever reailing behind him,a part of himself which he could never properly see.In america he felt European,in France he felt German,in Germany american.Only in England,which he found in some ways most American.Only in Engliand,which he found in some ways most alien of all,could he somehow forget or postpone the problem of who he was.The company of other historians suited him,and they just took him for granted and assumed quietly that of sourse he would stay and hecome British.He was so grateful for that. 1.Ludwig was born in England because his parents had ________. A.gone there to get visas B.wanted him to be eligible for British nationality C.happened to be in England at that time D.been requited to go there to learn English 2.the way Ludwigs parents brought him up made him________. A.conscious of his European heritage B.content to be an American C.secure in his position D.an anxious intellectual 3.Ludwig's parents spoke English at home because they________. A.were of different nationalities B.needed to practise the language C.wanted to be thoroughly American D.did not want Ludiwig to favor French or German 4.Ludwig had hoped,in Europe,to be able to________. A.look up some of his relatives B.see the past in a different light C.involve himself passionately in history D.make a special study of Hitler 5.Europe had the effect of making Ludwig feel________. A.a loss of identity B.conscious of his origin C.part of a historical process D.burdened with guilt 6.Ludwig felt the company of other historians________. A.exciting B.comforting C.disturbing D.boring |
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