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列车上遇到的姑娘

[印度]拉斯金·邦德著 卞慧明 译

我一个人独自坐了一个座位间，直到列车到达罗哈那才上来一位姑娘。我是个盲人，所以不知道姑娘长得如何，但从她脚后跟发出的“啪嗒啪嗒”的声音，我知道她穿了双拖鞋。她说话的声音是多么清脆甜润！

“你是到台拉登去吗？”火车出站时我问她。

我想必是坐在一个阴暗的角落里，因为我的声音吓了她一跳，她低低地惊叫一声，末了，说道：“我不知道这里有人。”

　　“我开始也没看见你，”我说，“不过我听到你进来了。”我不知道能否不让她发觉我是个盲人，我想，只要我坐在这个地方不动，她大概是不容易发现庐山真面目的。

　　“我到萨哈兰普尔下车。”姑娘说，“你到哪儿去？”

“先到台拉登，然后再去穆索里。”我说。

“啊，你真幸运！要是我能去穆索里该多好啊！我喜欢那里的山，特别是在十月份。”

　　“不错，那是黄金季节，”说着，我脑海里回想起眼睛没瞎时所见到的情景。“漫山遍野的大丽花，在明媚的阳光下显得更加绚丽多彩。到了夜晚，坐在篝火旁，喝上一点白兰地，这个时候，大多数游客离去了，路上静悄悄的，就像到了一个阒无人烟的地方。”（１）

她默默无语，是我的话打动了她？还是她把我当作一个风流倜傥的滑头？接着，我犯了一个错误，“外面天气怎么样？”我问。她对这个问题似乎毫不奇怪。难道她已经发觉我是一个盲人了？不过，她接下来的一句话马上使我疑团顿释。

“你干吗不自己看看窗外？”听上去她安之若素。

　　我沿着座位毫不费力地挪到车窗边。窗子是开着的，我脸朝着窗外假装欣赏起外面的景色来。我的脑子里能够想象出路边的电线杆飞速向后闪去的情形。“你注意到没有？”我冒险地说，“好像我们的车没有动，是外面的树在动。”

　　“这是常有的现象。”她说。

　　我把脸从窗口转过来，朝着姑娘，有那么一会儿，我们都默默无语。“你的脸真有趣。”我变得越发大胆了，然而，这种评论是不会错的，因为很少有姑娘不喜欢奉承。

　　她舒心地笑了起来，那笑声宛若一串银铃声。“听你这么说，我真高兴，”她道，“谁都说我的脸漂亮，我都听腻了！”啊，这么说来，她确实长得漂亮！于是我一本正经地大声道：“是啊，有趣的脸同样可以是漂亮的啊。”

　　“你真会说话。”她说，“不过，你干吗这么认真？”

　　“马上你就要下车了。”我突然冒出这么一句。

　　“谢天谢地，总算路程不远，要叫我在这里再坐两三个小时，我就受不住了。”然而，我却乐意照这样在这里一直坐下去，只要我能听见她说话。她的声音就像山涧淙淙的流水。她也许一下车就会忘记我们这次短暂的相遇，然而对于我来说，接下去的旅途中我会一直想着这事，甚至在以后的一段时间里也难忘怀。

　　汽笛一声长鸣，车轮的节奏慢了下来。姑娘站起身，收拾起她的东西。我真想知道，她是挽着发髻？还是长发散披在肩上？还是留着短发？

火车慢慢地驶进站。车外，脚夫的吆喝声、小贩的叫卖声响成一片。

“再见！”姑娘说。

　　她站在靠我很近的地方，从她身上散发出的香水味撩拨着我的心房。我想伸手摸摸她的头发，可是她已飘然离去，只留下一丝清香萦绕在她站过的地方。接着门“砰”地一声关上，把我和外面的世界隔了起来（２）。我回到自己的座位上，列车员嘴里一声哨响，车就开动了。

　　列车慢慢加快速度，飞滚的车轮唱起了一支歌。车厢在轻轻晃动，发出嘎吱嘎吱的声音。我摸到窗口，脸朝外坐了下来。外面分明是光天化日，可我的眼前却是一片漆黑！现在我对面又有了一个新旅伴，也许又可以小施骗技了。

　　“对不起，我不像刚才下车的那位吸引人。”他搭讪着说。

　　“那姑娘很有意思，”我说，“你能不能告诉我，她留着长发还是短发？”

“这我倒没注意，”他听上去有些迷惑不解。“不过她的眼睛我倒注意了，那双眼睛长得很美，可对她毫无用处——她完全是个瞎子，你注意到了吗？”

小题1:结合全文，赏析“划线一（漫山遍野的大丽花……）”部分的场景描写。（４分）

小题2:根据你对文章的理解，分析“把我和外面的世界隔了起来”这句话有哪些含义？（３分）

小题3:小说结尾有什么特点？这样结尾有什么好处？（4分）

小题4:小说中的“我”和列车上遇到的那位姑娘都是盲人，两人似乎都不大愿意让别人知道自己是盲人。他们这样做是出于怎样的心理？你对此如何评价？结合文本简析。（６分）

(一)

On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city’s population are black.

News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event.

LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTYBLACK WINS 56 OF VOTES

Bradley called his victory over Yorty "the fulfillment of a dream". During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him, "You can’t do this, you can’t go there, because you are a Negro. " Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent.

Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him. The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council ten years ago.

At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of those cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising.

In Los Angeles thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate. Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty- five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.

In the author’s opinion, it was surprising that（）.

A．the whites would vote for a black mayor

B．a black mayor would be elected in such a large city

C．a black from a poor farmer’s family could be elected mayor of Los Angeles

D．there would be so many black mayors