This economy has really got a lot of people moving and not always by a choice they wanted to make. My wife and I now find ourselves among those unfortunates feeling that  1 .
At the end of last year, our customers just  2 .  We had to make the painful decision to our office and put our house up for  4 . We haven’t lived in it for two years yet and expected it would be the  5  one for a long time. How   6 this world economic mess is changing our lives!
As I get older, I find moving less adventurous and more  7  . This time, we’re in the process of moving without knowing where we’ll   8 next. Job searching has been thrown into the quagmire(困境) of an unsettled life. Both my wife and I had been feeling pretty  9  from all this. I’ve been challenged to find the positive in all this down that’s  10  us.
But then it happened while I watched my wife  11  things up. She’s an absolute whiz(能手) when it comes to packing. I took delight in watching her  12  just the right boxes for  13  in front of her and filling in the  14  with pillows and towels. I began feeling something like a wind lift me up and sail me through my own  15 of the packing and loading.
Some friends will be helping us with the  16 . I’ve told them that they’re not  17  friends but gaining some new vacation spots.
I have  18  that we’ll get through this transition finally. We all will always have work to do, by choice or  19 , and we can also consciously make the effort to create a sense of  20  in a new place.

【小题1】
A.pressureB.pleasureC.heatD.chance
【小题2】
A.stayed upB.turned upC.dried upD.came up
【小题3】
A.openB.closeC.visitD.paint
【小题4】
A.helpB.comparisonC.decorationD.sale
【小题5】
A.lastB.nextC.onlyD.special
【小题6】
A.littleB.quicklyC.frequentlyD.well
【小题7】
A.dangerousB.commonC.stressfulD.interesting
【小题8】
A.returnB.arriveC.studyD.prepare
【小题9】
A.relaxedB.excitedC.ashamedD.depressed
【小题10】
A.improvingB.encouragingC.beatingD.killing
【小题11】
A.packingB.washingC.pullingD.dividing
【小题12】
A.bring upB.keep upC.size upD.set up
【小题13】
A.othersB.nothingC.anotherD.everything
【小题14】
A.carsB.gapsC.tanksD.holes
【小题15】
A.boatB.shareC.wishD.promise
【小题16】
A.settlingB.cookingC.cleaningD.moving
【小题17】
A.valuingB.losingC.invitingD.making
【小题18】
A.ideaB.faithC.feelingD.opinion
【小题19】
A.otherwiseB.indeedC.worseD.rather
【小题20】
A.panicB.connectionC.humorD.home

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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, 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 and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition 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.”

57. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should not be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.www.

58. 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.

59. 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.

60. 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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