Broomhall：练习题

• a.By describing a sudden, violent event that forces the speaker to grow up overnight.
• b.By focusing exclusively on the natural landscape of the area, ignoring any human or social elements.
• c.Through the contrast between the freedom of childhood play and the heavy, lingering presence of urban history and racial identity.
• d.Through a nostalgic and entirely positive celebration of the neighborhood's gentrification.

• a.Resentful and angry, explicitly calling for the destruction of all new buildings in the area.
• b.A complex mix of intimacy and distance, where the physical changes in the city mirror the speaker's own internal sense of displacement.
• c.Purely celebratory, as the speaker believes the modern developments have improved the community.
• d.Indifferent, as the speaker focuses only on their personal family relationships rather than the environment.

• a.They indicate the speaker's regret over pursuing art instead of a more stable career.
• b.They serve to criticize the lack of cultural diversity in modern-day Sheffield.
• c.They provide a historical account of the development of the city's housing estates.
• d.They map out a sense of belonging and identity within a specific physical and cultural landscape.

• a.It acts as a literal background track that distracts the reader from the speaker's emotional pain.
• b.The poem avoids musical references to emphasize the silence and isolation of the speaker's current life.
• c.It serves to evoke the specific cultural atmosphere of the past, making the speaker's memories feel visceral and rhythmically connected to the location.
• d.It is used to demonstrate that the speaker has no talent for music, contrasting with the success of the neighborhood's musicians.

• a.By depicting the speaker as a stationary figure who watches the world pass by without participating in it.
• b.By suggesting that the speaker was physically unable to leave the neighborhood due to a lack of transport.
• c.By portraying the neighborhood as a prison from which the speaker had to escape through literal flight.
• d.By mapping the speaker’s maturing consciousness onto the physical streets and limits of the neighborhood, suggesting that identity is tied to navigation.

先自己写一遍答案，再对照解题步骤。

先自己写一遍答案，再对照解题步骤。