Although I refer to a conifer guide when I’m cross-
country skiing. I am still not trustworthy on a difference
between a spruce and a fir. But let me the smallest piece of
commercial-packaging trash appear along the trial and I can
give you the species, genus, and phylum every time.
Although I refer to a conifer guide when I’m cross-
country skiing. I am still not trustworthy on a difference
between a spruce and a fir. But let me the smallest piece of
commercial-packaging trash appear along the trial and I can
give you the species, genus, and phylum every time.5
Much of the litter we bring with us into the wilderness is
of the mental variety, past a certain point, our minds really
cannot grasp places that are completely trash-free. The
grape-soda can drawing bees in the middle of a supposedly
pristine wilderness campsite provokes our outrage and 10
disgust, of course. But underneath those feelings, and less
comfortable to admit, is a small amount of recognition and
even relief. The soda can is us, after all. IN the nineteenth
century, when the cult of the Science had just begun.
advertisers (especially in New England) took to plastering 15
giant advertising slogans on the scenery itself. Hikers who
reached lofty lookout points in the Adirondacks or the
Berkshires would see the words VISIT OAK HILL on
a rock face in the prospect before them. (Oak Hill was
a Boston clothing store) Even more remarkable is how 20
few of them seem to have complained
Passage2
“In less’n six months there wasn’t a board fence, nor
a bridge-girder, nor a dead wall, nor a barn, nor a face of
rock in that whole region that didn’t have “Lapham’s
Mineral Paint-Specimen” on it in the three colors we 25
begun by making.”
Lapham continued, “I’ve heard a good deal of talk about
that stove-blacking man and the kidney-cure man, because
they advertised in that way; and I’ve read articles about it
in the papers; but I don’t see where the joke comes in, 30
exactly. So long as the people that own the barns and
fences don’t object. I don’t see that the public has got to
do with it. And I never saw anything so very sacred about
a big rock, along a river or in a pasture, that is wouldn’t do
to put mineral paint on it in three color, I wish some of the 35
people that talk about the landscape, and WRITE about it,
had to bu’st one of them rocks OUT of the landscape with
powder, or dig a hole to bury it in, as we used to have to do
up on the farm; I guess they’d sing a little different tune
about the profanation of scenery. There ain’t any man 40
enjoys a slightly bit of nature-a smooth piece of interval
with half a dozen good-sized wine-glass elms in it-more
than i do. But I ain’t a-going to stand up for every big ugly
rock I come across, as if we were all a set of dumn Druids.
I say the landscape was made for man, and not man for the 45
landscape.”
“Yes,” said Barley carelessly: “it was made for the
stove-polish man and the kidney-cure man.”
“it was made for man that knows how to use it.”
Lapham returned, insensible to Bartlett’s irony.50
- The statement “the Soda can is us, after all”(line 13, passage 1) can best be understood to mean that
a. Trash is commonly found in the wilderness
b. Trash makes the wilderness feel less alien
c. Trash can make the wilderness more picturesque
d. many people enjoy consumer goods like soda
e. many hikers bring consumer goods with them’
Why is the answer B?
2)The “cult of science”(line 14) is best represented by which of the following in passage 2?
a. “lapham” 27
b. The “people” 31
c. The “people” 36
d. “any man” 40
e. the “stove-polish man” 48
Why is the answer C?
- Lapham’s observations in passage 2 compared with the author’s observations in passage 1 are
a. Less sarcastic
b. less evenhanded
c. less accusatory
d. more resigned
e. more circumspect
Why is the answer b?
Thank your for your help.
- The clue is "recognition, even relief"--if you recognize something, it's less alien