单项选择题
2. Apollo and Daphne
Apollo is the Greek god of music, poetry, art, the sun and a great warrior. When he first saw the god of love, Eros (Cupid), sat on the bank of the river playing with his bow and tiny arrows. As Apollo is also patron of archery, he mocked Eros,“What are you doing with powerful weapons, naughty boy? ”He said,“That equipment of yours are fitting my shoulders. I am able to hurt and kill the wild animals and the enemies with them. I recently killed the swollen Python with countless arrows, the Python who was pressing down so many acres with his disease-bearing stomach! You will be content to provoke some loves by your fire, not to take away my honors.”
The insulted Eros then prepared two arrows: one of gold and one of lead. He shot Apollo with the gold arrow, so the god has a passionate love for the river nymph Daphne. He shot Daphne with the lead arrow, making her a hatred for Apollo. Having taken after Apollo’s sister, Artemis (Diana), Daphne had looked down upon her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the forest. Due to her identity as an “aemula Phoebes” (female rival or emulator of Artemis), she had dedicated herself to perpetual virginity. Her father, the river god Peneus, demanded that she get married and give him grandchildren. She, however, begged her father to let her remain unmarried; he eventually complied.
Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued to reject him. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened, helping Apollo catch up to Daphne. Seeing that Apollo was bound to reach her, she called upon her father, "Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to hide me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger! Let me be free of this man from this moment forward!" Peneus answered her plea and “a heavy numbness seized her limbs; her soft breasts were surrounded by a thin bark, her hair changed into the foliage, her forearms changed into branches; her foot, just now swift, now clinged because of sluggish roots.” She was turned into a laurel tree.
Apollo vowed to honor her forever: “Always my hair will have you, my lyres will have you, my quivers will have you, laurel tree. You will be present to two Latin places when the happy voice will sing a triumph and they will visit the great ceremonies at the Capitoline Hill.”
Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render Daphne evergreen. For this reason, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree do not decay.
4. Many of the Apollo’s things will have laurel trees except______.
A．His lyres.
B．His quivers.
C．His clothes.
D．His hair.
