题目内容
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading(在...上面走) water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — here’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同)of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding.
小题1:The author decided to write a novel ______ .
小题2:How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
小题3:What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — here’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同)of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding.
小题1:The author decided to write a novel ______ .
A.to finish the writing course | B.to realize her own dream |
C.to satisfy readers’ wish | D.to earn more money |
A.Disturbed. | B.Ashamed. | C.Confident. | D.Uncertain. |
A.It pays off to stick to one’s goal. |
B.Hard work can lead to success. |
C.She feels like being unexpectedly lucky. |
D.There is no end in sight when starting to do something. |
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
试题分析:文章中主人公“我”是一个有着英语文学学位的毕业生,但对自己做什么工作在开始的时候很迷茫,做了一段时间的记者,后来又到出版商那里工作,后来有了足够的积蓄暂停了工作去搞写作,开始时对自己的写作并没有足够的信心,见了一次出版商,把自己的作品送了过去结果得到了好的反馈,从而增加了信心,最终取得了成功。
小题1: B细节理解题。 I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel.句意为:我有了足够的积蓄请一年的假期,决定去满足我写作的这种内心的深层欲望。由此可知决定写小说是为了实现自己的梦想。
小题2:D细节理解题。My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.句意为:我的信心急剧下降,认为,我的小说可能不会被印刷,我把它放在了一边,由此可知作者对自己的小说是没有把握的。
小题3:A细节判断题。最后一自然段的大意为:我感觉似乎是难以置信的运气,当你开始去做一些不同常的事情时,我们是看不到结局的。我最终还是在出版商的合同上找到了自己的名字,也就是说自己的小说还是出版了,这是一次难以置信的回报。因此是想告诉我们坚持自己的目标就会得到回报。故答案应为A。
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