I am Jim Hawkins and my story begins many years ago, when my father worked at the Admiral Benbow inn.
One day a tall man with a scar (疤痕) on his face arrived. He opened the door of the inn, singing the song I know so well:
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
“A glass of rum,” he said when he came inside.
“This is a pleasant inn,” he said, “Do you have many customers (顾客)?”
“Not many,” my father answered.
“Well, this is the place for me. You can call me ‘captain’.” he said. The he asked a man to carry his large sailor’s chest to his room. “I’m a simple man,” he told my father, “Rum and bacon and eggs is all I want. Here are four gold coins to start. Tell me when I have to pay more.”
During the day he went to the cliffs with his telescope (望远镜) and in the evening he sat by the fire drinking rum and water. He asked about sailors every day. We soon understood that he wanted to avoid them. When a sailor visited the inn, the captain was always very quiet. One day he asked me:
“If you see a sailor with one leg, tell me as soon as he arrives.”
When the captain drank too much rum, he sang sea-songs and told the other customers terrible stories about his violent life at sea.
He stayed month after month, but he didn’t give my father any more money. My poor father was too frightened to ask. Everyone was frightened of the captain and his stories. The only person who was not afraid of him was the local doctor and magistrate, Dr. Livesey.
“If you keep drinking rum like that, you will very soon be dead,” he warned the captain.
【小题1】According to the passage we can know Jim’s father is ________ the captain.| A．afraid of | B．interested in | C．bored with | D．worried about |
| A．he enjoyed the rum of the inn | B．he enjoyed the scene around the inn |
| C．he wanted to meet his friends | D．he wanted to keep away from sailors |
| A．Jim’s father is poor. | B．The captain became quiet after drinking too much. |
| C．Dr. Livesey is a doctor | D．Many customers visited the inn. |
