D
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and
my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could
make of both names nothing longer or more
explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to
be called Pip.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and
never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the
days of photographs), my first imagination regarding what they were like, were
unreasonably from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s
gave me a strange idea that he was a square, dark man , with curly black hair.
From the character and turn of the words, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I
drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled（长雀斑的）and sickly.
Ours was wet country, down by the river,
within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and
broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on
an unforgettable cold afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for
certain, that this place overgrown with nettles（荨麻）was the churchyard（墓地）;and that Philip Pirip, and
also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander,
Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children to the aforesaid, were
also dead and buried. Suddenly I began to feel lonely and sad and afraid. I
began to cry.
"Hold your noise!" cried a
terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the
church porch. "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your
throat!"
A fearful man, all in grey, with a great
iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag
tied round his head. A man who had been shivered; and whose teeth chattered in
his head as he seized me by the chin.
"Oh! Don't cut my throat, sir," I
pleaded in terror. "Pray don't do it, sir."
"Tell us your name!" said the
man. "Quick!"
"Pip, sir."
"Once more," said the man,
staring at me. "Give it mouth!"
"Pip. Pip, sir."
“Show us where you live ,” said the man.
“Point out the place!”
I pointed to where our village lay, among
the alder-tree, a mile or more from the church. The man, after looking at me
for a moment, turned mw upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing
in them but a piece of bread. When the church came to itself—for he was
so sudden and strong that he made to go head over heels before me, and I saw
the steeple（尖塔）under
my feet—when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high
tombstone, trembling, while he ate the bread hungrily.
“You young dog,” said the man, licking his
lips, “what fat cheeks you have got.”
I believe they were fat, though I was at
that time undersized for my years, and not strong.
“Darn me If I couldn’t eat them,” said the
man, with a threatening shake of his head.
I carefully expressed my hope that he
wouldn’t, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to
keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
“Now look here!” said the man. “Where’s
your father?”
“There sir!” said I .
He started, made a short run, and stopped
and liked over his shoulder.
“There sir!” I explained. “That’s his
grave.”
“Oh!” said he, coming back.
“And mother’s there too, sir. And my five
little brothers.”
67．Who do you think Alexander is?
A．Pip’s
friend.
B．Pip’s father.
C．One of Pip’s little brothers. D．The fearful man.
68．It can be learned from the passage
that
.
A．Pip’s mother was freckled and ill.
B．Pip imagined what his parents liked through their photographs.
C．Pip’s parents and little brothers were killed by the man.
D．Pip was probably shorter or thinner than most children of his age.
69．What is the fearful man most likely to be?
A．An escaped prisoner. B．A minister of the church.
C．A tower
watcher. D．Pip’s parents’ enemy.
70．Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A．It was the words on the tombstones that made mw know of my parents’
appearance.
B．The man was so hungry that he wanted to cut his throat and eat his
fat cheeks.
C．Pip’s parents were buried together in the churchyard 20 miles from
the village.
D．He called himself Pip just because he was too young to pronounce his
long name clearly.
A. did the attack B. the attack did C. was the attack D. the attack was