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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