問題詳情

II. Discourse Structure 10% A young moth once set his heart on a certain star. He told his parents about this andthey counseled him to set his heart on a bridge lamp instead. “You get somewherehanging around lamps,” said the moth’s father. “You don’t get anywhere chasing stars.”__56__ Every evening at dusk when the star came out he would start flying toward it andevery morning at dawn he would crawl back home worn out with his vain endeavor. Oneday his father said to him, “You haven’t burned a wing in months, boy, and it looks to meas if you were never going to. All your siblings have been badly burned flying aroundeither street lamps or house lamps. __57__ A big strapping moth like you without a markon him!” The moth left his father’s house, but he would not fly around street lamps and hewould not fly around house lamps. He went right on trying to reach the star, which wasfour and one-third light years, or twenty-five trillion miles, away. __58__ He never didreach the star, but he went right on trying, night after night, and when he was a very, veryold moth he began to think that he really had reached the star and he went around sayingso. __59__ His parents and his brothers and his sisters had all been burned to death whenthey were quite young. Moral: __60__ 
(A) The moth thought it was just caught up in the top branches of an elm. 
(B) Come on, now, get out of here and get yourself scorched! 
(C) But the moth would not heed the words of either parent. 
(D) Having an ambitious goal can actually keep you safe and sane. 
(E) This gave him a deep and lasting pleasure, and he lived to a great old age.
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參考答案

答案:C
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)