题目内容

先通读下面的短文,然后根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的单词,使短文完整。(每空0. 5分,共5分)

How can I win a Nobel Prize for writing? Here is the s___1.___ from this year’s winner: make it short, keep it real, and work hard.

Canadian author Alice Munro,82,was awarded the 2013 Noble Prize in the literature(文学)。She is k__2.___ for her short stories about personal relationship of ordinary people, usually women.

Munro was born in a farmer family in Ontario. The family was very poor. Munro did a lot of physical work a_____3.____ a young girl.

But she decided to be a writer when she was 12. She turns her hard childhood into great writing i__4.____.

The story Dear Life, for example, opens with a description of the neighborhood in which Munro grew up.

Besides, she talked a___5.___ her poor relationship with her mother in many of her stories, such as Lives of Girls and Women and Friend of My Youth.

Since she published her f__6.__ book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn’t see h_____7.______ as a talented writer.

“I’m the opposite of a writer with a quick gift. I don’t understand it very easily at all, the “it” being whatever I’m trying to do,” she said.

Do you d____8._____ of becoming a writer while thinking you are not that talented? Munro has a tip for you: use notebooks and write a l____9.____.

“I have lots of notebooks that contain this terribly clumsy(蹩脚的) writing,” she said. But it helps her arrange her mind. “Stories would just be working in my head for so long that I was deep into t___10.___ when I started to write.

 

1.secret

2.known

3.as

4.ideas

5.about

6.first

7.herself

8.dream

9.lot

10.them

【解析】

试题分析:

1.make it short, keep it real, and work hard.描述,可知此处指的是,这就是从今年的获奖者那里得来的秘密。根据首字母可知填单数名词secret,秘密。

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考点:考查首字母填空

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