Question

   I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stonecutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration(崇敬) for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Macbeth, Mark Antony's Funeral Oration, Grey's Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child;I memorized and learned it all.

 He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write,which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the col?lege magazine, etc.，and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man，never daring to believe I could seriously become a writ?er. Then I went to Harvard,wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with(着迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard,had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how,why,or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms―a bedroom and a sitting room―in a little square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

(   ) 1. We may conclude，in regard to the author's development as a writer，that his father

   A.made an important contribution

   B.insisted that he choose writing as a career

   C.opposed his becoming a writer

   D.insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

(   ) 2. The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of        .

   A. his special talent   B. his father's teaching and encouragement

   C.  his study at Harvard   D. a hidden urge within him

(   ) 3. The author        .

   A.began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

   B.had always been successful in his writing career

   C.went to Harvard to learn to write plays

   D.worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

(   ) 4. The author really started on his way to become a writer        .

   A. when he was in high school   B. when he was studying at Harvard

   C.  when he lived in London   D. after he entered college

(   ) 5. What can we learn about the author's life in the autumn of 1926?

   A.He left Harvard and got married.

   B.He couldn't make up his mind what to do.

   C.He started his dream as a writer.

   D.He began to think seriously what to do.

Answer 1

 1-5 ADADB

A篇文章讲述了作者从小受父亲的影响，喜爱文学，后来通过自己的努力成为作家的故事。

1.A深层理解题。参照第一段的相关内容My father，…with a great respect and venera?tion for literature. He had a tremendous memo?ry，and he loved poetry... I heard it all as a child, I memorized and learned it all.可知答案。

2.D细节理解题。参照第一段中but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel可知答案。

3.A事实判断题。参照第二段中…had my plays rejected可排除B项;文章无C项相关内容；参考第二段中I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, ect.，…可推测"作者仅是大学报纸、杂志的编辑"，所以排除D项;参考第二段中Then I went to Harvard,wrote some more plays there，became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright，可推测A项正确。

4.D细节理解题。参照第二段中The desire to write,which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still.可知答案。

5.B逻辑推理题。参考第二段中and finally in the autumn of1926，how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to deter?mine可知答案。