Campaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself.Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts
in any other portion of the globe.Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side.The columns crawl through
a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass.Amid these scenes of savage
brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment.Except at harvest time,when
self-preservation requires a temporary truce,the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war.Every man is a
warrior,a politician and a theologian.Every large house is a real feudal fortress made,it is true,only of sun-baked clay,but
with battlements,turrets,loopholes,drawbridges,etc.complete.Every village has its defence.Every family cultivates its
vendetta;every clan,its feud.The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one
another.Nothing is ever forgotten,and?very few debts are left unpaid.For the purposes of social life,in addition to the
convention about harvest-time,a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed.A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from one end of the frontier to another.The slightest
technical slip would,however,be fatal.The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest;and his valleys,nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water,are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse
population.
Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts:the rifle and the British Government.The first was an enormous luxury and blessing;the second,an unmitigated nuisance.The convenience of the rifle was nowhere more
appreciated than in the Indian highlands.A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred
- A.Melting snows
- B.Large population
- C.Steep hillsides
- D.Fertile valleys
正确答案及解析
正确答案
解析
本题考查细节。
关于印度边境的地理特征，文章在第一段进行描述时使用了“valley walls rise steeply”、“snow fed torrents”和“his valleys...are
fertile”等词句，分别对应选项C、A和D，故排除。
第一段出现了“a sparse population”，可知B项不符合文意，综上，B选项正确。
故正确答案为B项。
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