题目

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先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的单词,使短文完整。(每空0. 5分，共5分)
How can I win a Nobel Prize for writing? Here is the s___小题1:___ from this year’s winner: make it short, keep it real, and work hard.
Canadian author Alice Munro,82,was awarded the 2013 Noble Prize in the literature(文学)。She is k__小题2:___ for her short stories about personal relationship of ordinary people, usually women.
Munro was born in a farmer family in Ontario. The family was very poor. Munro did a lot of physical work a_____小题3:____ a young girl.
But she decided to be a writer when she was 12. She turns her hard childhood into great writing i__小题4:____.
The story Dear Life, for example, opens with a description of the neighborhood in which Munro grew up.
Besides, she talked a___小题5:___ her poor relationship with her mother in many of her stories, such as Lives of Girls and Women and Friend of My Youth.
Since she published her f__小题6:__ book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn’t see h_____小题7:______ as a talented writer.
“I’m the opposite of a writer with a quick gift. I don’t understand it very easily at all, the “it” being whatever I’m trying to do,” she said.
Do you d____小题8:_____ of becoming a writer while thinking you are not that talented? Munro has a tip for you: use notebooks and write a l____小题9:____.
“I have lots of notebooks that contain this terribly clumsy(蹩脚的) writing,” she said. But it helps her arrange her mind. “Stories would just be working in my head for so long that I was deep into t___小题10:___ when I started to write. ”

答案

小题1:secret 
小题2:known  
小题3:as    
小题4:ideas  
小题5:about
小题6:first  
小题7:herself  
小题8:dream 
小题9:lot   
小题10:them

解析

试题分析：
小题1:联系下文make it short, keep it real, and work hard.描述，可知此处指的是，这就是从今年的获奖者那里得来的秘密。根据首字母可知填单数名词secret，秘密。
小题2:结合语境可知本句指的是，她以写作关于普通人之间的人际关系，尤其是女人之间的关系的短篇小说闻名。短语be known for以……出名，根据首字母可知填过去分词known，知道，了解。
小题3:句意：作为一个年轻女孩，芒罗做了许多体力劳动。根据首字母可知填介词as，作为。
小题4:联系前一句描述，可知此处指的是，她把她艰苦的童年作为主要的创作灵感。根据首字母可知填复数名词ideas，主意，想法。
小题5:结合语境可知此处指的是，她在许多小说当中谈到了她和母亲不太好的关系。根据首字母可知填介词about，关于。
小题6:结合语境可知此处指的是，她出版她的第一本小说。根据首字母可知填序数词first，第一，作定语。
小题7:句意：但是芒罗并不把自己看作是天才的作家。根据首字母可知 填反身代词herself，她自己。
小题8:句意：你想成为一名作家，然而天赋并不好吗？短语dream of梦想，本句中已有助动词do，故填原形动词dream。
小题9:联系下一段描述，可知此处指的是使用笔记本，多写。副词短语a lot许多，大量。根据首字母可知填单数名词lot，许多。
小题10:结合语境可知此处代词指代的是前文主语stories，做介词宾语，故用复数宾格人称代词them，他们。