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____.”
| 小题1: | | A．naughty | B．lazy | C．useless | D．raggy |
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小题2:A. nothing B. something C everything D. anything
| 小题4: | | A．thought | B．promised | C．decided | D．expected |
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| 小题6: | | A．ridiculous | B．acceptable | C．believable | D．wrong |
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| 小题7: | | A．see | B．face | C．treat | D．react |
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| 小题8: | | A．writing | B．experiment | C．practice | D．composition |
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| 小题9: | | A．school | B．college | C．club | D．company |
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| 小题10: | | A．went across | B．put aside | C．came out | D．set off |
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| 小题11: | | A．lecture | B．writing | C．teaching | D．evening |
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| 小题12: | | A．received | B．accepted | C．gave | D．offered |
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| 小题13: | | A．giving up | B．paying for | C．signing up | D．ridding of |
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| 小题14: | | A．paid | B．made | C．offered | D．tried |
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| 小题15: | | A．finished | B．gone | C．delayed | D．left |
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| 小题16: | | A．made off | B．took off | C．gave off | D．moved off |
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| 小题17: | | A．style | B．habit | C．idea | D．skill |
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| 小题18: | | A．Therefore | B．But | C．Though | D．For |
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| 小题19: | | A．written | B．turned | C．torn | D．put |
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| 小题20: | | A．cheerful | B．enjoyable | C．successful | D．forgettable |
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