Question

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beat   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   I wanted-to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my  44   and went to college. My first novel (小说)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University,  where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of  48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself ―  50   was a working-.class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university

My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52  , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

 

36．A．bright	B．useless	C．simple	D．hopeful
37．A．anything	B．something	C．everything	D．nothing
38．A．low	B．poor	C．good	D．useful
39 A．support	B．happiness	C．surprise	D．thing
40．A．admitted	B．decided	C．planned	D．told
41．A．me	B．them	C．her	D．it
42．A．wrong	B．right	C．stupid	D．faulty
43．A．see	B．know	C．understand	D．face
44．A．experiment	B．practice	C．writing	D．composition
45．A．came on	B．came in	C．came out	D．came back
46．A．day	B．night	C．month	D．year
47．A．graduation	B．pass	C．degree	D．success
48．A．giving in	B．giving back	C．giving out	D．giving up
49．A．while	B．if	C．when	D．or
50．A．there	B．here	C．it	D．that
51．A．left	B．attended	C．changed	D．graduated
52．A．tired	B．calm	C．nervous .	D．famous
53．A．And	B．But	C．However	D．Well
54．A．just	B．exactly	C．so	D．very
55．A．praised	B．said	C．answered	D．advised

 

Answer 1

37.A 

解析：由于句子中出现了never，表示否定的意思，用anything，此句的意思是：除了失败以外，你什么也做不成功的。校长的话是对“我”的全盘否定。

38.B  因为没有学到知识，所以前五年所干的工作就很差的。

39.D 

解析：我爱上了一个漂亮的中层社会的女孩子，这在我看来是不可能的。所以，对我来说就是一个很伤心的事。而不是happiness（高心），也不是surprise(吃惊)的事。A项与文章的意思没有联系。

40.B 

解析：我决定从次应该在生活中做一些积极的事情。

41.C 

解析：同时我也想向她证明：人们对我的看法是错误的。

42.A 

解析：根据第41题的解析。

43.D 

解析：根据此处的意思：尤其是那个女孩子的母亲所说的：让我们真正的面对这件事情，你所做的一切事情都是失败的，看来别人都对作者“我”是一种看不起的态度。

44.C 

解析：从后面的My first novel，可以知道“我”开始了写作。

45.C 

解析：短语come out的意思为“出版”。

46.A 

解析：根据文章后面的attended evening classes，可以推断出“我”白天在一所中学教书。

47.C 

解析：短语get a degree in history意思为“取得了历史学学位”。

48.D 

解析：当我们取得了学位后，就成为了大学的一位教师，但是我考虑要放弃这个工作，去从事自己喜欢的专职写作。give in的意思为“屈服、让步”；give back的意思为“归还、恢复”；give out为“分发、发出(气味、热等)”，均与文章后的意思不一致。

49.C 

解析：在那个时候Leeds University给我提供了一份业余工作。

50.B 

解析：此处表现出作者一种自豪的心情：在这里我曾以一个工人阶级的孩子毕业，现在我却在这里教书。

51.A 

解析：短语leave school意思为“毕业”。而短语graduate from school才正确。

52.D 

解析：当我有了自己的写作风格的时候，我成名了，我也就变得富有了。注意take off的意思为“成名，出名”，与此处的空是一致的。

53.B 

解析：表示意思的转折。

54.A 

解析：just表示“仅仅”，而exactly意思为“准确地”。

55.B 

解析：由于后面是一句话，所以应该是say，而不是praise(赞扬)，answer(回答)，advise(建议)。此句的意思是：我仅仅希望所有曾经瞧不起我的人说一句：我信任你，你将会成功的。