SAT阅读题型分类——推断题

The excerpt is taken from a novel. Mr. Harding, now an old man, has lost his position as the Warden of a hospital for old men. He has just come from an unsuccessful interview with Mr. Slope concerning his reappointment to the position.

　　Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down
　　the palace pathway, and stepped out into the close. His
　　position and pleasant house were a second time
　　gone from him; but that he could endure. He had been
　　（5） schooled and insulted by a man young enough to be
　　his son; but that he could put up with. He could even
　　draw from the very injuries which had been inflicted
　　on him some of that consolation which, we may
　　believe, martyrs always receive from the injustice of
　　（10） their own sufferings. He had admitted to his daughter
　　that he wanted the comfort of his old home, and yet he
　　could have returned to his lodgings in the High Street,
　　if not with exultation, at least with satisfaction, had
　　that been all. But the venom of the chaplain's
　　（15） harangue had worked into his blood, and sapped the
　　life of his sweet contentment.
　　'New men are carrying out new measures, and
　　are carting away the useless rubbish of past centuries!'
　　What cruel words these had been- and how often are
　　（20） they now used with all the heartless cruelty of a
　　Slope! A man is sufficiently condemned if it can only
　　be shown that either in politics or religion he does not
　　belong to some new school established within the last
　　score of years. He may then regard himself as rubbish
　　（25） and expect to be carted away. A man is nothing now
　　unless he has within him a full appreciation of the
　　new era; an era in which it would seem that neither
　　honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which
　　success is the only touchstone of merit. We must
　　（30） laugh at everything that is established. Let the joke be
　　ever so bad, ever so untrue to the real principles of
　　joking; nevertheless we must laugh - or else beware
　　the cart. We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit
　　of the times, or else we are nought. New men and new
　　（35） measures, long credit and few scruples, great success
　　or wonderful ruin, such are now the tastes of
　　Englishmen who know how to live! Alas, alas! Under
　　such circumstances Mr. Harding could not but feel
　　that he was an Englishman who did not know how to
　　（40） live. This new doctrine of Mr. Slope and the rubbish
　　cart sadly disturbed his equanimity.
　　'The same thing is going on throughout the
　　whole country!' 'Work is now required from every
　　man who receives wages!' And had he been living all
　　（45） his life receiving wages, and doing no work? Had he
　　in truth so lived as to be now in his old age justly
　　reckoned as rubbish fit only to be hidden away in
　　some huge dust-hole? The school of men to whom he
　　professes to belong, the Grantlys, the Gwynnes, are
　　（50） afflicted with no such self-accusations as these which
　　troubled Mr. Harding. They, as a rule, are as satisfied
　　with the wisdom and propriety of their own conduct
　　as can be any Mr. Slope, or any Bishop with his own.
　　But, unfortunately for himself, Mr. Harding had little
　　（55） of this self-reliance. When he heard himself
　　designated as rubbish by the Slopes of the world, he
　　had no other resource than to make inquiry within his
　　own bosom as to the truth of the designation. Alas,
　　alas! the evidence seemed generally to go against him.

　　4. It can be inferred that Mr Harding is especially disturbed because he
　　A. does not feel himself to be old
　　B. is offended by the young man’s impertinence
　　C. believes no one else feels as he does
    D. believe his life’s work has been worthwhile

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