阅读section4 SAT 2005年10月

阅读section4 SAT 2005年10月
The following passage is adapted from a novel set in
the early twentieth century.Mr.Beebe,a clergyman,is
speaking with Cecil Vyse about a mutual acquaintance,
Lucy Honeychurch.Miss Honeychurch has recently
returned from a journey with her older cousin and
chaperone,Miss Bartlett.
Cecil found his companion interesting.
“And at present you think her not wonderful as far
as life goes?”
“Well,I must say I’ve only seen her at Tunbridge
Wells,where she was not wonderful,and at Florence.
She wasn’t wonderful in Florence either,but I kept
on expecting that she would be.”
“In what way?”
Conversation had become agreeable to them,and
they were pacing up and down the terrace.
“I could as easily tell you what tune she’ll play next.
There was simply the sense that she found wings and
meant to use them.I can show you a beautiful picture
in my diary.Miss Honeychurch as a kite,Miss Bartlett
holding the string.Picture number two:the string breaks.”
The sketch was in his diary,but it had been made afterwards,
when he viewed things artistically.At the time he
had given surreptitious tugs to the string himself.
“But the string never broke?”
“No.I mightn’t have seen Miss Honeychurch rise,
but I should certainly have heard Miss Bartlett fall.”
“It has broken now,” said the young man in low,
vibrating tones.
Immediately he realized that of all the conceited,
ludicrous,contemptible ways of announcing an engagement
this was the worst.He cursed his love of metaphor;
had he suggested that he was a star and that Lucy was
soaring up to reach him?
“Broken?What do you mean?”
“I meant,” Cecil said stiffly,“that she is going
to marry me.”
The clergyman was conscious of some bitter
disappointment which he could not keep out of his
voice.
For Mr.Beebe,picture number two represents
A.an unlikely development
B.an anticipated outcome
请问在哪里看出来是B的?A为什么不对?

从这句可以推断出 He cursed his love of metaphor; had he suggested that he was a star and that Lucy was soaring up to reach him?
因为he was a star, 只有 the string breaks, 他们才能进一步发展关系