英语语言运用与思维
第一改错
第二阅读
第一篇是John Masefield
Beverley Nichols
1 A few weeks later I met Masefield himself. He had promised to read some of his poetry to a little literary society which we had gathered together, and we all assembled in my rooms to await his arrival. It was a bitterly cold night, with driving snow, land he lived some eight miles out of Oxford, in a region where there were neither taxis nor buses, so that he would have been perfectly justified in phoning us to say that he could not come.However, he turned up only a few minutes late, having bicycled all the way, in order not to disappoint us.
2 One never forgets Masefield's face. It is not the face of a young man, for it is lined and grave. And yet it is not the face of an old man, for youth is still in the bright eyes. Its dominant quality is humility.There were moments when he seemed almost to abase himself before his fellow-creatures. And this humility was echoed in everything he did or said, in the quiet, timid tone of his voice, in the way in which he always shrank from asserting himself.
3 This quality of his can best he illustrated by his behaviour that night. When the time came for him to read his poems, he would not stand up in any position of pre-eminence but sheltered himself behind the sofa, in the shade of an old lamp, and from there he delivered passages from The Everlasting Mercy, Dauber, The Tragedy of Nan, and Pompey the Great. He talked, too, melodiously, and with the ghost of a question mark after each of his sentences and though he were saying 'Is this right? Who am I to lay down the law?' And when it was all over, and we began to discuss what he had said, all talking at the top of our voices, very superficially, not doubt, but certainly with a great deal of enthusiasm, it was with a sudden shock that I realized that Masefield had retired into his shell, and was sitting on the floor, almost in the dark, reading a volume of poems by a young and quite unknown writer.
4 I saw a good deal of him after that. He lived in a little red house looking over the hills and valleys about eight miles out, and on fine days one could see from his window the grey spires and panes of Oxford glittering in the distance.
5 'Oxford is always different,' he said to me once. 'always I see her in a new mood of beauty from these hills.' We were looking down on the city from the distance and I too knew how he felt. Oxford from the hills is a dream eternally renewed. Under the rain, when only a few spires and towers rise above the driving sheets of grey, on an April morning, when the whole city is sparkling and dappled with yellow shadows, by moonlight when it is a fantastic vision of the Arabian Nights.
6 Like many other literary geniuses, Masefield is clever with his hands. He will, with equal complacency, make a model of a ship or mend a garden gate. But since he was himself a sailor -- since he has himself known the sea in every mood of loveliness or of terror, it is only natural that, when he does model, he should turn, by instinct, to ships. He showed me, at his house, a most exquisite model in wood of an old sailing vessel of the eighteenth century. There was nothing of the dilettante about that work. Every spar, every rope, every mast, every tiny detail was there, modeled to scale. It would have satisfied the most ardent technician, and yet it had a grace and a poetry that only Masefield could have given it.
7 'You must keep this in a glass case,' I said to him. 'It's far to precious, too dainty, to knock about like the other things.'
8 He shook his head. "She's not going to stay here,' he said. 'I made her for a friend who has been very kind to me.'
9 That was like Masefield, I thought, to spend weeks and weeks of labour to please 'a friend who had been kind to him.
然后上面这篇有有5个问题
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