2016届高考英语二轮复习专项训练：选择题专练卷（1）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮复习专项训练：选择题专练卷（1）

　　The hastypudding made, Marie poured it from the saucepan into a soupplate which her mistress held. Madame Duparc herself then took it to her father, Monsieur De Beaulieu. Then she and her daughter, and one of her sons, remained with the old man while he was eating his breakfast. Marie, left in the kitchen, prepared to clean the saucepan; but, before she could do so, she was suddenly called in two different directions by Madame De Beaulieu and Madame Duparc. The old lady wished to be taken to mass, and her mistress wanted to send her on a number of errands. It was halfpast eleven in the forenoon before she got back to the kitchen.

　　The first news that met her on her return was that Monsieur De Beaulieu had been suffering, ever since nine o?clock, from a violent attack of vomiting and colic. Madame Duparc ordered her to help the old man to bed immediately; and inquired, when these directions had been followed, whether Marie felt capable of looking after him herself, or whether she would prefer that a nurse should be sent for. Being a kindhearted, willing girl, always anxious to make herself useful, Marie replied that she would gladly undertake the nursing of the old man; and thereupon her bed was moved at once into Monsieur De Beaulieu?s room.

　　Meanwhile Madame Duparc fetched from a neighboring apothecary?s one of the apprentices (学徒) of the shop to see her father. The apprentice was quite unfit to meet the emergency of the case, which was certainly serious enough to require the attention of his master, if not of a regularly qualified physician. Instead of applying any internal remedies, the apprentice stupidly tried blistering. This course of treatment proved utterly useless; but no better advice was called in. After he had suffered for hours without relief, Monsieur De Beaulieu began to sink rapidly toward the afternoon. At halfpast five o’clock he had ceased to exist.