Passage ThreeOur real trouble was that we were short of capital, for it had all been spent in the old days before I took over the running of the farm. We could not carry through any radical improvements, but had o lice from hand to mouth — and this in the last years, became our normal mode of living on the farm.If I had had the capital, I thought, I would have given up coffee, have cut down the coffee trees, and have planted forest trees on my land. Trees grow up so quickly in Africa, in ten years' time you walk comfortably under tall blue gum trees and wattle trees which you have yourself in the rain carried in boxes from the nurseries, twelve trees in a box. I would have had then, I reflected, a good market for both timber and firewood in Nairobi. It is a noble occupation to plant trees, you think of it many years after with content. There had been big stretches of native forest on the farm in the old days, but it had been sold to the Indians for cutting down, before I took over the farm; it was a sad thing. I myself in the hard years had had to cut down the wood on my land round the factory for the steam-engine, and this forest, with the tall stems and the live green shadows in it, had haunted me. I have not felt sorrier for anything I have done in my life, than for cutting it down. From time to time, when I could afford it, I planted up bits of land with eucalyptus trees, but it did not come too much. It would be, in this way, fifty years before I had got the many hundred acres planted up, and had changed the farm into a singing wood, scientifically run, with a sawmill by the river. The squatters of the farm however, whose ideas of time were different from those of the white people, kept on looking forward hopefully to the time when everybody would have abundance of firewood —such as the people had had in the old days -from the forest that I was now soon going to plant.Questions 21-25 are based on Passage Three.23. “This forest had haunted me” most probably means, To me this forest had always been a source of( )
A、A. troubles
B、B. guilty conscience
C、C. timber and firewood
D、D. green shade
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：P443
