Question

英语阅读理解

I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember that being slow but steady wins the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
He opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked. “But the tortoise didn’t wish the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted, “He won the race by perseverance (毅力), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought for a while. “that’s a lie,” he said, “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, he’d never have won the race! That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They are just hopeless.

being slow but steady wins the race是什么意思？
pushing on steadily的steadily本身就是一个副词了，为什么还要前面要加on？

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问题2的B.took arise by agreeing to race是什么意思？
问题3的为什么选B不选C呢？
问题4为什么选C？

Answer 1

being slow but steady wins the race是什么意思？
虽然慢，但是很稳定，最终赢了赛跑

pushing on steadily的steadily本身就是一个副词了，为什么还要前面要加on？
这个on是和前面的push组成短语push on表示推进的意思，可以把这个词组当做是一个不及物动词来理解

问题2的B.took arise by agreeing to race是什么意思？
通过同意赛跑来夸大自己的能力。

问题3的为什么选B不选C呢？
通过第二段Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway。这句话中的next time 表示他们以前已经赛跑过了。

问题4为什么选C？
通过最后一段的这句话Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They are just hopeless
说他们是没有希望的，可以表明作者认为儿子这一代比他们这一代hopeless

追问

took arise是夸大能力的意思？arise不是动词呈现吗？怎么两个动词一起用？
能详细说明通过同意赛跑来夸大自己的能力的意思吗？

追答

这个意思就是说，本来乌龟是没有这个能力赢兔子的，但还是同意了赛跑，就好像自己能赢一样，这可以理解为乌龟通过同意赛跑来显得自己能力很强的样子。

Answer 2

being slow but steady wins the race的意思是：缓慢而稳步地赢得比赛

pushing on steadily的steadily本身就是一个副词了，为什么还要前面要加on？
这个on是和前面的push组成短语push on表示推进的意思，可以把这个词组当做是一个不及物动词来理解

问题2的B.took arise by agreeing to race的意思是；通过同意赛跑来夸大自己的能力

问题3的为什么选B不选C，原因:
通过第二段Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway。这句话中的next time 表示他们以前已经赛跑过了。

问题4为什么选C？
通过最后一段的这句话Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They are just hopeless
说他们是没有希望的，可以表明作者认为儿子这一代比他们这一代hopeless

追问

took arise是夸大能力的意思？arise不是动词呈现吗？怎么两个动词一起用？
能详细说明通过同意赛跑来夸大自己的能力的意思吗？

追答

这个意思就是说，本来乌龟是没有这个能力赢兔子的，但还是同意了赛跑，就好像自己能赢一样，这可以理解为乌龟通过同意赛跑来显得自己能力很强的样子。
这个你应该懂啊

Answer 3

1 虽慢 但是坚持的获得胜利
2 on和前面的push在一起
1 起因是同意比赛
2那两个人文中没有提
3 文章最后一句表示作者观点

Answer 4

乌龟接受赛跑太自以为是了因为He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did 。问题三选B Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race
next time下次么 选B 第四题就坑爹了不好说 D最合理 C也可以 没对错。
ps：这篇阅读理解不难 但是答案太模棱两可 坑爹的玩意