“Eddy，no!” I screamed at my dog when I realized what he had done．My finished homework was completely ruined by Eddy．This had actually happened to me，unlike most kids just looking for an excuse．But Eddy looked at me with a cocked(竖起的)head as if to say．“What，cant a dog be hungry?”

    I couldn’t believe it；my dog had actually eaten my homework! Jenny．my step-mom, came into the room and saw my sadness, but assured me that the teacher would understand．I did not believe her. So Jenny wrote my teacher a note to explain the unfortunate incident. The next morning I didn’t want to go to school. I couldn’t  imagine how the teacher would punish me．

    I went into the classroom with the remains of my homework in my backpack．Maybe she wouldn’t check homework today. What if she found out that my homework was not intact(完整无缺)? I would disappoint her for sure．I didn’t want to disappoint her. “kids，take out your homework，”the teacher said just the same as she did  every day. I could feel my heart beating hard and fast. The teacher began checking everyone’s homework．She got closer；I hunted for homework that looked similar to avoid embarrassment．No luck. She came closer “Kyle, where is your homework?” she asked．Unable to produce a similar worksheet, I reluctantly(不情愿地)handed over my sorry excuse for homework．

    She began to laugh. Why was she laughing? Was I going to disappoint her? Would I be forever laughed? “I never thought I would see the day that excuse would actually be true，”she gasped(喘息).

    Every year since then she has told my story to her students．“Unlike you, her dog did eat her homework. So don’t use this excuse again.” she says.

    56. In the author’s opinion，homework was         ．

      A. the dog’s favorite food       B. too difficult to be finished

      C. often eaten by students’ dogs  D. seldom eaten by students’ dogs

    57. Why didn’t the author want to go to school the next morning?

      A. Because she didn’t finish her homework．

      B. Because she was afraid of her teacher’s punishment

      C. Because her step—mom explained nothing to her teacher．

      D. Because her step—mom would punish Eddy after her leaving

   58. It can be learned from the passage that      ．

      A. the teacher checked homework every day

      B. the teacher didn’t believe the author at all

      C. the author re—did her homework at last

      D. homework was the only way to judge a student’s score

    59. When the teacher checked homework，the author felt ——．

      A. calm and quit      B. lucky and happy

      C. excited and pleasant  D. unwilling and sorry

   60. The teacher tells the author’s story to her students in order to——．

     A. tell them as a joke for fun    B. warn them to be careful of their dogs

     C. tell them to be honest people  D. tell them an excuse of not doing homework

  “Eddy，no!” I screamed at my dog when I realized what he had done．My finished homework was completely ruined by Eddy．This had actually happened to me，unlike most kids just looking for an excuse．But Eddy looked at me with a cocked(竖起的)head as if to say．“What，cant a dog be hungry?”

    I couldn’t believe it；my dog had actually eaten my homework! Jenny．my step-mom, came into the room and saw my sadness, but assured me that the teacher would understand．I did not believe her. So Jenny wrote my teacher a note to explain the unfortunate incident. The next morning I didn’t want to go to school. I couldn’t  imagine how the teacher would punish me．

    I went into the classroom with the remains of my homework in my backpack．Maybe she wouldn’t check homework today. What if she found out that my homework was not intact(完整无缺)? I would disappoint her for sure．I didn’t want to disappoint her. “kids，take out your homework，”the teacher said just the same as she did  every day. I could feel my heart beating hard and fast. The teacher began checking everyone’s homework．She got closer；I hunted for homework that looked similar to avoid embarrassment．No luck. She came closer “Kyle, where is your homework?” she asked．Unable to produce a similar worksheet, I reluctantly(不情愿地)handed over my sorry excuse for homework．

    She began to laugh. Why was she laughing? Was I going to disappoint her? Would I be forever laughed? “I never thought I would see the day that excuse would actually be true，”she gasped(喘息).

    Every year since then she has told my story to her students．“Unlike you, her dog did eat her homework. So don’t use this excuse again.” she says.

    56. In the author’s opinion，homework was         ．

      A. the dog’s favorite food       B. too difficult to be finished

      C. often eaten by students’ dogs  D. seldom eaten by students’ dogs

    57. Why didn’t the author want to go to school the next morning?

      A. Because she didn’t finish her homework．

      B. Because she was afraid of her teacher’s punishment

      C. Because her step—mom explained nothing to her teacher．

      D. Because her step—mom would punish Eddy after her leaving

   58. It can be learned from the passage that      ．

      A. the teacher checked homework every day

      B. the teacher didn’t believe the author at all

      C. the author re—did her homework at last

      D. homework was the only way to judge a student’s score

    59. When the teacher checked homework，the author felt ——．

      A. calm and quit      B. lucky and happy

      C. excited and pleasant  D. unwilling and sorry

   60. The teacher tells the author’s story to her students in order to——．

     A. tell them as a joke for fun    B. warn them to be careful of their dogs

     C. tell them to be honest people  D. tell them an excuse of not doing homework

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 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—there’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(有回报的).

1.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．I was waiting for good fortune.

B．I was trying to find an admirable job.

C．I was being aimless about a suitable job.

D．I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.

2.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

3.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

A．Disturbed.         B．Ashamed.         C．Confident.         D．Uncertain.

4.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?

A．It pays 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.

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 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 — there’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（有回报的）.

1.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

2.The author decided to write a novel ______ .

3.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

4.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?

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 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 — there’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（有回报的）.

1.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

2.The author decided to write a novel ______ .

3.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

4.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?