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In 1946, Will Thomas decided he did not wish to live in his native land any longer and that he would take his wife and children to Haiti, where as Negroes in a Negro republic, they would be free of racial prejudice and their opportunities would be limited only by their ability to use them.
He does not believe he need detail the reasons behind this unhappy decision, except to say that being considered and treated as an inferior on every level of life can become intolerable, especially when it is by one's race rather than his individual worth that he is prejudged — and condemned.
When he reached this point, he had become an unbeliever in both God and country, for it seemed to him that racial segregation and all that it implied was as rigid on the spiritual as on the ordinary practical life. And so finally he made the decision to leave his native land — permanently.
Love of country, Thomas found, can be very deep, very strong. So he thought to make one final try in his motherland for the equality of status which he considered he had been denied; and he chose Vermont for the experiment. Thomas reasoned that because of its great traditions of personal freedom there was at least a chance that he and his family might find there what they so yearned for, and they did. In the small farming community where they settled, they were accepted on a basis of individuality unqualified by race.
However, it is not that which now seems most important to him. It is, rather, that in such a friendly atmosphere, and amid the quiet of a beautiful countryside, it was possible to think calmly, and gradually to gain understandings by which Thomas believes he can live in peace with other men, and with himself, for the rest of his life.
One of these understandings is that unless one seeks sincerely for whatever it is he most wants, he surely will not find it, and that what he really had been seeking most of his life was not what he wanted but instead was justification for the resentments he felt. This is not to say there was not cause for those resentments, but rather that he had so concentrated upon them he could not see that the picture was not all bad — that in fact, there was considerable good in it.
Thomas had condemned his country and his religion because he viewed only what seemed wrong in both. But when he was able to remove the blinds of his own prejudice, it became clear that these failures, these flaws in church and state, were human failures, human flaws, and not mere self-willed bigotry; and that within each there were, and there always had been, many who had worked and fought for what was right.
Thomas thinks the core of his earlier bitterness had been the conviction that he had been denied his birthright of human dignity. But he knows now that is something which cannot be given or taken away by man.
It has been written that he who seeks shall find, and that to him who asks, it shall be given. And he can only testify that when he did seek, he did find; and that when he asked, it was given to him. And he knows that only the God he once denied could bestow such precious gifts.
39.What made Will Thomas decide to escape his native land in 1946?
A. Disappointment with God.
B. Racial discrimination
C. Equality in Negro republic
D. Lack of individual worth
40.Where should the sentence “However. he did not do it.” be placed?
A.Between Paragraphs 1 and 2
B.Between Paragraphs 2 and 3
C.Between Paragraphs 3 and 4
D.Between Paragraphs 4 and 5
41. By writing the passage, the author intended to ________.
A.question human failures and flaws
B.suggest how to fight for human dignity
C.call on more people to condemn racism
D.show transformation in thinking Thomas underwent
39.【答案】C
【解析】 细节理解题。根据第二段 “... except to say that being considered and treated as an inferior on every level of life can become intolerant, especially when it is by one's race...“可知，威尔.托马斯受到种族歧视，所以决定逃离自己的祖国。
40.【答案】C
【解析】推理判断题。 根据第三段最后一句“And so finally he made the decision to leave his native land permanently. ”可知，最后威尔.托马斯决定永久地离开自己的祖国:又 根据第四段第一、二句可知，他决定再给自己一次机会，也给自己的祖国一次机会。所以，However...应该放在第三段和第四段中间表示转折。
41.【答案】D
【解析】推理判断题。 作者想通过威尔●托马斯最终在自己的国家找到公平，自己的想法也由此发生转变的事情告诉我们:只要尝试，最终将会有所收获。
 

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