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there"s a big 2 between "being a writer" and"writing".
In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, 3 the long hours spent alone 4 .
"You"ve got to want to write," I say to them,"not want to be a writer."
The 5 is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by 6 there are
thousands more whose longing is 7 rewarded. When I 8 a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to
become a freehand writer, I had no prospects (前景) at all. What I 9 was a friend who found me a room in
a New York apartment building. It didn"t 10 matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately
bought a (an) 11 manual typewriter and 12 a genuine writer.
After a year or so, 13 , I still hadn"t gotten a break and began to 14 myself. It was so hard to sell a
story that I 15 made enough to eat. But I knew I 16 write.
I had dreamed about it 17 . I wasn"t going to be one of those people who die 18
"What if?" I would keep putting my dream to the 19 even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear
of failure. This is the Shadow Land of 20 , and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
| ( )1. A. advise ( )2. A. step ( )3. A. and ( )4. A. in the room ( )5. A. reality ( )6. A. writing ( )7. A. never ( )8. A. began ( )9. A. had had ( )10. A. ever ( )11. A. used ( )12. A. felt like ( )13. A. consequently ( )14. A. scold ( )15. A. almost ( )16. A. planned to ( )17. A. for years ( )18. A. regretting ( )19. A. point ( )20. A. time | B. encourage B. advance B. but B. typewriting B. idea B. readers B. always B. found B. have had B. just B. new B. acted as B. therefore B. doubt B. partly B. ought to B. long ago B. wondering B. best B. death | C. tell C. gap C. not C. with a novel C. news C. fortune C. sometimes C. left C. am having C. even C. useful C. typed like C. unluckily C. beat C. poorly C. was able to C. since then C. dreaming C. test C. hope | D. warn D. difference D. for D. for a desk D. reason D. others D. only D. put D. did have D. greatly D. old D. performed as D. however D. hate D. barely D. wanted to D. once again D. depressing D. most D. life | |||||||||||
| 1-5: BDCBA 6-10: CACDC 11-15: AADBD 16-20: DABCC | ||||||||||||||
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| Critics say Microsoft Windows 95 must be able to do what the company has said or sales will fall sharply. This could mean the public would reject future Microsoft products. The public would lose trust in the company. Some people say this will not happen. They say Microsoft sent out several thousand copies of their new product to computer experts to test several months before it was released. Problems that these testers found were immediately corrected. Microsoft representatives are working to solve all the other problems buyers find when they try the new system. Computer industry experts say that if there are no major problems Microsoft can expect to earn about 7 thousand million dollars from Windows 95 in the first two years. The experts say this could be just a beginning for Microsoft and the whole computer industry. The experts say Windows 95 can help the user do many different and difficult tasks. They say this means the sale of more powerful computers and other computer products will increase as people learn about the new Microsoft product. Other companies say Windows 95 is not a big improvement. The Apple Computer Company says its Mackintosh Operating System has been able to do many of the same things since 1989. For example, it has been able to let users work two different programs at the same time. The Amega Computer also has offered this for almost ten years. And IBM says the operating system it developed about 7 years ago is very similar. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. In the passage the writer _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. thinks Windows 95 will be a success B. is doubtful about what Microsoft Company has promised C. shows no opinion of his own D. is advertising Windows 95 for Microsoft Company | ||||||||||||||
| 2. Some believe that Windows 95 will not only bring in a lot of money but also _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. replace the older products B. threat (威胁) other computer companies C. help sell other products produced by Microsoft Company D. bring about changes in other fields | ||||||||||||||
| 3. All the following show Windows 95 is important to Microsoft Company except _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. Windows 95 will build up people"s faith (信心) in the country"s future products B. Windows 95 will bring about a great change in the whole computer industry C. other companies don"t think highly of Windows 95 D. Windows 95 will help sell more powerful computers | ||||||||||||||
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| "A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right," says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing."If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer."I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer."So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer." This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想) and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with modern houses."I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I"ll never go back," she said."Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said,"I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can"t exist for them, as it did for us." | ||||||||||||||
| 1. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book? | ||||||||||||||
| A. It should not aim at a narrow audience. B. It should be attractive to young readers. C. It should be based on original ideas. D. It should not include too much conversation. | ||||||||||||||
| 2. In Mollie Hunter"s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer? | ||||||||||||||
| A. Being poor in life experience. B. Being short of writing skills. C. The weakness of description. D. The absence of a story. | ||||||||||||||
| 3. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child? | ||||||||||||||
| A. She didn"t expect to become a writer. B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories. C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions. D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views. | ||||||||||||||
| 4. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. more intelligent B. better informed C. less eager to learn D. less interested in reality | ||||||||||||||
| 5. What"s the writer"s purpose in this text? | ||||||||||||||
| A. To describe Mollie Hunter"s most successful books. B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books. C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience. D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers. | ||||||||||||||
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| There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington, D.C. has the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings. FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don"[t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings. Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer artists had no place to show their works. A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the computer artist needs an expensive laser printer. Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. The main purpose of this text is to give information about _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. museums throughout the world B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A. C. art exhibitions in Florida International University D. latest development of computer art | ||||||||||||||
| 2. To see the art in FIU museum, you need _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. floppy discs B. a computer and a printer C. pictures and drawings on paper D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line | ||||||||||||||
| 3. The museum was started when _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. Robert Shostak wanted to do something for computer scientists B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists C. art students needed a place to show their works D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art | ||||||||||||||
| 4. The words "an audience"in the last paragraph refer to _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. art students B. computer owners C. exhibits in the museum D. those who will enjoy art | ||||||||||||||
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| Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job, but living and dealing with parents can be even more difficult. If I have learned anything in my 16 ears, it is that 1 is very important, 2 when you disagree. With any relationship, you need to let other people know how you"re 3 . When you"re mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn"t 4 anything. Communication 5 the concerns (所关注的事) of another. It means that you can"t 6 come home from school, go up to your room and ignore (不理睬) everyone. 7 you just say "Hi", and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing. When 8 with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing 9 parents. If you are 10 to make them see something as you see it, tell that you"ll listen to what they have to say, but ask them 11 to listen to you. Shouting or walking away only makes the situation 12 . This is an 13 : one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by 14 , but she didn"t feel she could jus 15 to go home. That would be rude. 16 , the had been nice enough to make her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were 17 at first, but when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren"t as mad and let the incident go. Communication was the key factor here. If Sophie"s parents had not been willing to 18 , Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble. Communication isn"t a(n) 19 way deal, it goes both ways. Just remember, if you get into a 20 like Sophie"s, tell the other person how you feel-listening is a key factor in communication. | ||||||||||||||
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