I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was
and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be
but a failure.”
After five years of
jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. I
I wanted to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to her that what people said about me was
. Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s
it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my
and went to college. My first novel _
while I was at college.
After college I taught during the _
_ in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of
that job to write full time
I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —here was a working--class boy who’d
school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and
, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.
what does it mean? I just wish all the people that have put me down had
: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
| 小题1: | | A．bright | B．useless | C．simple | D．hopeful |
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| 小题2: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题3: | | A．low | B．poor | C．good | D．useful |
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| 小题4: | | A．agreed | B．decided | C．planned | D．told |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrong | B．right | C．stupid | D．faulty |
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| 小题6: | | A．see | B．know | C．understand | D．face |
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| 小题7: | | A．experiment | B．practice | C．writing | D．composition |
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| 小题8: | | A．came on | B．came in | C．came out | D．came back |
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| 小题9: | | A．day | B．night | C．month | D．year |
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| 小题10: | | A．giving in | B．giving back | C．giving out | D．giving up |
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| 小题12: | | A．left | B．attended | C．changed | D．graduated |
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| 小题13: | | A．tired | B．calm | C．nervous . | D．famous |
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| 小题14: | | A．And | B．But | C．However | D．Well |
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| 小题15: | | A．praised | B．said | C．answered | D．advised |
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