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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