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单选题根据材料，回答题[1] “Daddy, you're crying,” say my sons. “No, boys, I'm man-crying. Very useful skill.”
[2] A short walk from my house in Hampshire, on a hill overlooking the heathland，is a plaque marking the spot where Richard Pryce Jones deliberately crashed his Halifax bomber during the war. ① He could have parachuted to safety, but that would have meant crashing into the village. The epitaph reads: “He died that others might live.”
[3] It never fails to move me. Not to tears, you understand. That would be disrespectful. But I do usually manage a lump in the throat and that film of moisture over the eyes that men have in their emotional armoury. ②Gordon Brown demonstrated the non-crying cry beautifully when he made his farewell speech on the steps of Number 10. That catch in the throat. The determination not to weep in public． At that moment, if at no other，he had nobility.
[4] Not everyone can carry it off. I don't think Paul Gascoigne ever quite got the hang of it, for example．But I like to think I have it down to an art. My technique honed from years of watching The Railway Children，Sleepless in Seattle and that scene in Dumbo when the mother elephant is locked away. “Daddy!” my sons will say, pointing the accusing finger. “You're crying!”
[5] “Me? Over Dumbo? Ha ha ha. No, boys, what I am doing is man-crying, a sort of non-crying cry. I'll teach you it one day. Very useful.”
[6] They are too young to appreciate the nuance yet, but when they are older I will explain that open sobbing is associated with being female, and so inappropriate for men. ③ The Charlie Chaplin analogy might be useful here. He once said that the way to act drunk is to imagine yourself a drunk man trying to act sober. The same is true when a man learns the non-crying cry. To be convincing, you must look as if you are trying to avoid tears.
[7] Men have to be careful what they cry at, because some subjects are more worthy of tears than others．Grief, obviously. But not self-pity. And rarely should a man cry in pain. And never at the death of a princess he didn't know. Those are the rules.
[8] I suspect my colleague Matt Pritchett might be with me on this. One of his cartoons showed a father next to a television tuned to the World Cup, explaining to his children that “at some point in the next few weeks, you are going to see me cry”.④ And the day after the last survivor of the Great Escape died, he did a cartoon showing a gravestone with a mound of tunnelled earth trailing away from it. I seemed to have something in my eye when I saw that, and I expect he had the same something in his eye when he drew it.
Richard Pryce Jones didn't parachute because __________．

A． he was not allowed to do so
B． he wanted to save his plane
C． he was afraid of parachute jump
D． he didn't want to take the villagers' lives

参考答案D

解析:文章大意
文章围绕男人的眼泪展开记叙、描写和说明。首段由父子间的对话引出主题。第二段简要描述英雄理查德·普赖斯．琼斯的故事，引出第三段和第四段对男人眼泪的描述。第五段继续由儿子们对哭泣的理解引出之后作者对男人眼泪的进一步解释。第七段说明了什么时候男人可以哭，什么时候不应该哭。末段记叙了一个事件，由同事的卡通画引出他对男人眼泪看法的认同。
长难句注释
1．A short walk from my housein Hampshire，on a hill overlooking the heathland，is a plaque marking the spot where Richard Pryce Jones deliberatelycrashed his Halifax bomber during the war．
【分析】本句为主从复合句，主句主干结构为on a hill overlooking the heathland，is aplaque，是个倒装句。现在分词结构marking the spot…是plaque的定语；而where Richard Pryce Jonesdeliberately crashed his Halifax bomber during the war是spot的定语从句。
【译文】距离我位于汉普郡的房子不远的地方有一座小山，从山上俯视下去是荒原，山上有一块匾,上边标记了战争期间理查德·普赖斯·琼斯驾驶着哈利法克斯式轰炸机蓄意坠毁的地点。
2．But I do usually manage alump in the throat and that film of moisture over the eyes that men have intheir emotional armoury．
【分析】本句为主从复合句，主句主干结构为I do manage a lump and that film of moisture。that men have in their emotional armoury是moisture的定语从句。
【译文】但是我通常会控制喉咙里的哽咽以及由于男人的情感而在眼里生成的那层潮湿。
3．They are too young toappreci

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