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the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn"t think
I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher.
I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000
words.
It takes confidence to make a new start - there"s a dark period in-between where you"re neither one
thing nor the other. You"re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you"re too ashamed to say,
"Well, I"m writing a navel, but I"m not quite sure if I"m going to get there." My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my
surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer
and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and
wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal - that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck - of fate, really. When you set out to do something different,
there"s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合
同)of the publisher - to be a published writer - is unbelievably rewarding(有回报的).
B. I was trying to find an admirable job.
C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.
D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
B. to realize her own dream
C. to satisfy readers" wish
D. to earn more money
B. Ashamed.
C. Confident.
D. Uncertain.
B. Hard work can lead to success.
C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.
D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
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danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic; motorists probably would have to
step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. "I"m awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a
third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that
constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the
bus wouldn"t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to
guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I
usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly
decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
B. asking for help looked silly
C. she was normal and independent
D. being found blind was embarrassing
B. hit a person as usual
C. hit a lamppost by accident
D. was caught by something
A. stopped a big lorry
B. stopped the wrong bus
C. made no attempt to stop the bus
D. was not noticed by other people
B. It was unreliable for making judgments.
C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl.
D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus
B. to find more buses there
C. to find the bus by herself there
D. to find people more helpful there
Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man. He gained much __1__while traveling
throughout the world. Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger
and thumb on his right hand. He became so 2 that he was afraid he would spend his life 3 and
would no longer be able to use his life in a(n) 4 way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting 5 . He realized that he still had partial
6 of his right hand and could write with 7 . Then, he had an idea," Why not write to other people
who need encourage- ment?"
He 8 where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of
people in 9 . Many of them had hope of regaining their 10 . Others would keep feeling depressed
and remain put away for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to 11 them. So he wrote
to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the
prisoners would be 12 . However,it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
13 with the intention, the man began sending 14 messages of God"s love, hope, strength, and
encouragement. He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the 15 . He poured his heart
and soul into his words, 16 his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any 17 . Frequently, he felt
discouraged, wondering if anyone 18 read his letters. However, this was his 19 chance, so he was
determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, " Please write on the best paper you
can afford. Your letters are passed from cell(小牢房) to cell until they almost fall to 20 !" We all have
unique experiences, abilities and talents.We can discover ways to reach others in need of encouragement
and strength.
( )1. A. wealth
( )2. A. depressed
( )3. A. writing
( )4. A. abnormal
( )5. A. presents
( )6. A. sense
( )7. A. affection
( )8. A. estimated
( )9. A. hospitals
( )10. A. families
( )11. A. release
( )12. A. acceptable
( )13. A. Faced
( )14. A. holy
( )15. A. point
( )16. A. sharing
( )17. A. success
( )18. A. curiously
( )19. A. only
( )20. A. ruin
B. embarrassed
B. suffering
B. regular
B. e-mails
B. strength
B. caution
B. doubted
B. churches
B. letters
B. reach
B. reasonable
B. Filled
B. daily
B. worst
B. learning
B. reply
B. patiently
B. better
B. pieces
C. ashamed
C. weeping
C. comfortable
C. letters
C. shape
C. difficulty
C. assumed
C. prisons
C. freedom
C. defend
C. prohibited
C. Satisfied
C. one-way
C. degree
C. gaining
C. help
C. carefully
C. extra
C. the ground
D. thrilled
D. wandering
D. meaninful
D. prizes
D. function
D. confidence
D. wondered
D. charities
D. conscience
D. know
D. considered
D. Impressed
D. round-way
D. limit
D. enriching
D. progress
D. actually
D. lost
D. the bottom
not only full of pleasure 2 it is very safe,and no one can imagine how 3 his work sometimes I Two
photographers were traveling 4 a thick forest in Alaska,aiming at taking photos of the wildlife. As there
was nothing interesting to take pictures of,they were feeling disappointed 5 they caught sight of a
brown bear which had caught a large fish by a quiet lake. The wild bear found 6 too,and stood on its
hind legs to get a better 7 of the man. While doing this,the bear made a wonderful pose(姿态) for
the two 8 photographers.
Suddenly the bear began to run at them while the two men kept right 9 taking pictures of the
angry animal.As the beast was drawing very fast towards them,one of the men 10 right away and
rushed to a tall tree nearby. He climbed to the top of it as quickly as he could. 11 who could not
climb a tree,immediately lay down on the ground, 12 to be dead. When the bear bent down over
him and 13 him all over,the man shut his eyes tightly, 14 and tried not to make any movement.
While all this was going on,the man 15 was busy taking pictures of the exciting 16 . After a
while the bear went away 17 because bears never touch a 18 man. When all was safe,the
photographer in the tree came down and said to the friend,"The same story 19 was told in Aesop"s
Fable has just happened to us,and I 20 no chance to take photos of the wonderful scenes.
| ( )1. A. got ( )2. A. reported ( )3. A. also ( )4. A. dangerous ( )5. A. through ( )6. A. and ( )7. A. it ( )8. A. idea ( )9. A. experienced ( )10. A. for ( )11. A. looked around ( )12. A. Another man ( )13. A. hoping ( )14. A. smelled ( )15. A. closed his mouth ( )16. A. hy the tree ( )17. A. acts ( )18. A. disappointedly ( )19. A. dead ( )20. A. that | B. had B. said B. but B. exciting B. across B. then B. him B. picture B. excited B. to B. showed around B. The other man B. continuing B. tasted B. held his breath B. in the tree B. movements B. excitedly B. dying B. which | C. waited C. thought C. and C. hard C. over C. soon C. us C. sight C. happy C. on C. turned around C. The second man C. pretending C. smiled C. raised his arms C. on the tree C. senses C. hurriedly C. lying C. like | D. lost D. told D. so D. dirty D. by D. when D. them D. understanding D. wonderful D. up D. walked around D. The slow man D. trying D. touched D. crossed his legs D. under the tree D. scenes D. worriedly D. good D. as | ||||
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| Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise,we accept these failures as a 1 part of the learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers,we don"t 2 our children to have this same right. When I see a child 3 from this kind of pressure,I think of Donnie. Donnie was my youngest third-grader. His 4 of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed. He 5 answered questions-he was afraid he might be wrong. I tried my best to build his 6 . But nothing changed until midterm,when Mary Anne,a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty,and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included,all 7 her very much. One morning,we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had copied the problems with pains taking tidiness and filled answers in the first row. 8 with his progress, I 9 the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned,Donnie was in 10 . He"d missed the third problem. My student teacher looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face 11 . From the desk we shared,she got a container filled with pencils. "Look,Donnie," she said,kneeling beside him and gently 12 the tear-stained (弄脏的) face from his arms."I"ve got something to 13 you. " She removed the pencils,one at a time, and placed them on his desk. "See these 14 , Donnie," she continued. "They belong to Mrs Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers(橡皮) are 15 ? That"s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That"s what you 16 learn to do,too. " She kissed him and stood up. "Here," she said. "I"ll leave one of these pencils on 17 desk so you"ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 18 teachers. " Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a smile. The 19 became Donnie"s prized possession. That,together with Mary Anne"s frequent encouragement,gradually 20 him that it"s all right to make mistakes as long as you erase them and try again. | |||||||
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