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I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to
write and that finally burst through and found a channel.My people were of the working class of people.
My father, a stonecutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration (崇敬) for literature.He had a
tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the
rhetorical kind that such a man would like.Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy,
Macbeth, Mark Antony's "Funeral Oration", Grey's "Elegy", and all the rest of it.I heard it all as a child;
I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university.The desire to write, which had been strong during all my
days in high school, grew stronger still.I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc., and
in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there.
I wrote several little oneact plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never
daring to believe I could seriously become a writer.Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays
there, became obsessed with (着迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays
rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able
to determine.But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I
began to write my first book in London.I was living all alone at that time.I had two rooms-a bedroom
and a sitting room-in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and
creamyellowplaster look.
1. We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father________.
A. made an important contribution
B. insisted that he choose writing as a career
C. opposed his becoming a writer
D. insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
2. The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of________.
A. his special talent
B. his father's teaching and encouragement
C. his study at Harvard
D. a hidden urge within him
3. The author________.
A. began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard
B. had always been successful in his writing career
C. went to Harvard to learn to write plays
D. worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer
4. The author really started on his way to become a writer______.
A. when he was in high school
B. when he was studying at Harvard
C. when he lived in London
D. after he entered college
5. What can we learn about the author's life in the autumn of 1926?
A. He left Harvard and got married.
B. He couldn't make up his mind what to do.
C. He started his dream as a writer.
D. He began to think seriously what to do.
