I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2  but a failure.”
After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   4 that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive(积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s face it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my  8  and went to college. My first novel   9 while I was at college.
After college I taught during the   10  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   11  that job to write full time   12  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   13 school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does it mean? I   14  wish all the people that have put me down had  15  “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

【小题1】
A.brightB.uselessC.simpleD.hopeful
【小题2】
A.anythingB.somethingC.everything D.nothing
【小题3】
A.low B.poorC.good D.useful
【小题4】
A.support B.happinessC.surprise D.thing
【小题5】
A.agreedB.decidedC.planned D.told
【小题6】
A.me B.themC.herD.it
【小题7】
A.wrongB.right C.stupidD.faulty
【小题8】
A.experimentB.practiceC.writingD.composition
【小题9】
A.came onB.came inC.came outD.came back
【小题10】
A.dayB.nightC.monthD.year
【小题11】
A.giving inB.giving backC.giving outD.giving up
【小题12】
A.while B.if C.whenD.Or
【小题13】
A.leftB.attendedC.changedD.graduated
【小题14】
A.justB.exactlyC.soD.very
【小题15】
A.praisedB.saidC.answeredD.advised

 I can’t remember when I fell in love with music. Maybe it happened when I was feeling blue sometime long ago. I can’t tell you exactly how music makes me feel better. But while listening to music, especially light music, it makes me feel calm and peaceful. Now I am listening to a song named Moon River. It is really a fantastic song. I didn’t like this song at the beginning, but later I found its slow melody and beautiful lyrics deeply touching.

   “Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker. Wherever you’re going I’m going your way. Two drifters(流浪者) are off  to see the world. There’s such a lot of world to see.”

Yes. Although there is a long way to go for the drifters and maybe there are many troubles ahead, he seems afraid of nothing. I like music. Music reminds me that human beings have a lot in common even if they come from different countries or backgrounds, because we all have the same feeling or understanding of melodies and words.

1.The writer likes      music.

A.popular                  B.light              C.classical          D.dance

2.The writer didn’t like the song called Moon River        .

A.now                     B.at all              C.at the beginning    D.very much

3.From the song, we know that the drifters seem afraid of       .

A.everything               B.police             C.dogs             D.nothing

4.The writer thinks people who come from different countries have       .

A.the same feeling of melodies and words

B.different understanding of melodies and words

C.different feelings of melodies and words

D.the same understanding of sound and words

5.The writer began to love music when he/she was       sometime long ago.

A.happy                    B.excited             C.tired           D.blue

 

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