Question

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.”

After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student.

After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”

1.	A．naughty B．lazy C．useless D．raggy

2.A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything

3.	A．when B．that C．which D．a(chǎn)s

 

4.	A．thought B．promised C．decided D．expected

 

5.	A．to B．for C．with D．a(chǎn)t

 

6.	A．ridiculous B．a(chǎn)cceptable C．believable D．wrong

 

7.	A．see B．face C．treat D．react

 

8.	A．writing B．experiment C．practice D．composition

 

9.	A．school B．college C．club D．company

 

10.	A．went across B．put aside C．came out D．set off

 

11.	A．lecture B．writing C．teaching D．evening

 

12.	A．received B．a(chǎn)ccepted C．gave D．offered

 

13.	A．giving up B．paying for C．signing up D．ridding of

 

14.	A．paid B．made C．offered D．tried

 

15.	A．finished B．gone C．delayed D．left

 

16.	A．made off B．took off C．gave off D．moved off

 

17.	A．style B．habit C．idea D．skill

 

18.	A．Therefore B．But C．Though D．For

 

19.	A．written B．turned C．torn D．put

 

20.	A．cheerful B．enjoyable C．successful D．forgettable

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.C

5.A 

6.D

7.B

8.A

9.B

10.C 

11.D

12.A

13.A

14.C

15.D 

16.B

17.A

18.B

19.D

20.C

【解析】作者通過自己的努力向別人證明自己很成功！

1.C 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)上文我在學(xué)校表現(xiàn)很差可知校長認(rèn)為我沒有用處。

2.D 詞義辨析。Anything成功的人或事。這里是指校長認(rèn)為我永遠(yuǎn)都不會成功。

3.B 語法分析。本句考察的是強(qiáng)調(diào)句型。強(qiáng)調(diào)主語the best thing。

4.C 動詞辨析。A思考；B允諾；C決定；D期待；根據(jù)句意可知我決定要做一些積極的事情。

5.A 固定詞組。Prove to sb向某人證明。這里可知是我想向別人證明他們的說法是錯的。

6.D 形容詞辨析。解析同上。

7.B 動詞辨析。A看見；B直面；C對待，治療；D反應(yīng)；這里是指我們直面這一切。

8.A 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)下文的novel可知是指寫作。

9.B 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)下文的a college student可知是指上大學(xué)。

10.C 短語辨析。A穿過，橫過；B放在一邊；C出版；D引爆，使發(fā)生；這里是指我的小說出版。

11.D 上下文串聯(lián)。上文提及白天教學(xué)，晚上參加夜校。

12.A 動詞辨析。A收到；B接受；C給；D提供。這里是指我得到了學(xué)位。

13.A 短語辨析。A放棄；B付錢買…；C報名；D清除；結(jié)合上下文可知我要放棄工作專職寫作。

14.C 動詞辨析。這里是指利茲大學(xué)給我提供了一份全職工作。

15.D 詞組辨析。Leave school畢業(yè)。這里是指我為自己感到自豪，很早就中學(xué)畢業(yè)，現(xiàn)在卻在大學(xué)教書。

16.B 短語辨析。A匆匆逃走；B事業(yè)成功；C發(fā)出；D離開。這里是指我的事業(yè)成功了。

17.A 上下文串聯(lián)。這里是指我我發(fā)現(xiàn)了自己的寫作風(fēng)格。

18.B 上下文串聯(lián)。上文提及我已經(jīng)很有名譽(yù)了，但是這又意味著什么呢？

19.D 固定詞組。Put down看不起，輕視；結(jié)合上下文可知D正確。是指過去看不起我的人。

20.上下文串聯(lián)。與文字開頭相對應(yīng)，開頭是別人說我是失敗的人，這里希望別人承認(rèn)我的成功。