题目内容
My daughter, Kate, never thought of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland.Last year we were traveling across the Channel and Kate put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle. She threw the bottle into the sea. She never thought it again, but eleven
months later, she got a letter from a girl from Holland. Both girls write to each other often now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.
根据短文内容,判断正(T)误(F)
1. Kate and the writer each got a letter from a beautiful girl of their age.
2. Kate put her name and address into a bottle to give her friend a chance to write to her.
3. She heard from a girl of her father’s eleven months later and she was very surprised.
4. Letters cost a little more in the post office than in the bottle.
5. We often use bottles to post letters.
解析：
先阅读短文，然后从文中每小题的四个选项中选出一个可以填入短文中相应空白处的最佳答案。
I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was useless and when I was 14, he said, “You’re never going to be (1) but a failure(失败者).
After five years of poor jobs, I fell (2) with a very nice girl. But her mother said to me, “You’ve (3) in everything you’ve ever done. You can’t give any happiness to my daughter!” It was the frustrating thing that could have changed me later. I decided to do something (4) about my life, because I wanted to show her that what people said about me was (5) .
So I tried hard with my writing and went to college. My first book came out while I was at college. After college I (6) during the day in high schools and went to evening classes at college. Later, I gave up that job to write full time. At the same time, I was offered a part-time job as a (7) at Leeds University. I began to feel (8) of myself –here was once a poor boy who’d left school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career(生涯) (9) when I discovered my own style.
Now I’m rich and (10) , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does that mean? I just wish all the people who have put me down had said: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
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