15.
---What made him so upset?
---______she
failed in her examination.
A.
What B.
That C. Because D. Whether
第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
Many a
young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people,
but also 16 that there's a big difference
between" 17 a writer "and writing. In
most 18 these individuals are dreaming
of 19 and fame, not the long hours
20 at a typewriter. "You've got to want to write, "I
say to 21 , "not want to be a writer".
The
reality is that writing is a lonely, private and 22 paying
affair. For every writer kissed 23 fortune there
are thousands more whose desire is 24 rewarded.
When I left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a
freelance writer(自由撰稿人)，I had no prospects(chances
of success) 25 .
What I did have was a friend who 26 me my room
in a New York
apartment building. 27 didn't even matter that
it was cold and had 28 bathroom. I immediately
bought a used manual(手控的)
29 and felt like a genuine
writer.
After
a year or so, 30 , I still hadn't gotten a break
and began to 31 myself. It was so hard to sell a story
that hardly made enough to eat. 32 I knew I
wanted to write. I had 33 about it for years. I
wasn't going to be one of those people who die wondering. 34 if?
I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with
uncertainty and fear of 35 . This is the
Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
