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Willa Cather once said, "When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy
road,I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing；the road is all. That is
what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with
the thought that one more task had to be done."
Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her,
but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and
full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from child to young womanhood
and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild
flowers, wheat fields and rivers.
"It's a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you or
it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower,
an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card...But
when I come to the open plain, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently."
1. Willa Cather wrote because she found writing _____. [ ]
A. simple and lively
B. opened up a road to success
C. neither too hard nor too easy
D. interesting and enjoyable
2. What was the place like where Cather grew up? [ ]
A. It was cold,plain and without a church.
B. It was vast,open and flat.
C. It was like a German Christmas card.
D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers.
3. When she said "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.", Willa Cather
meant that _____. [ ]
A. you either love the place or hate it
B. you decide either to stay or to leave
C. some find the place warm; others find it cold
D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild
4. What happens when Cather comes to the open plain? [ ]
A. She breathes differently from others.
B. She wants to make the place her home.
C. She feels completely comfortable.
D. She finds the place similar to her home.
