I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2  but a failure.”

After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   4 that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive(积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s face it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my  8  and went to college. My first novel   9 while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   10  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   11  that job to write full time   12  I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself. —Here was a working-class boy who’d   13 school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does it mean? I   14  wish all the people that have put me down had  15  “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.                A．bright          B．useless         C．simple    D．hopeful

2.                A．anything        B．something       C．everything    D．nothing

3.                A．low            B．poor           C．good     D．useful

4.                A．support         B．happiness       C．surprise D．thing

5.                A．agreed         B．decided        C．planned D．told

6.                A．me            B．them           C．her  D．it

7.                A．wrong          B．right           C．stupid    D．faulty

8.                A．experiment     B．practice        C．writing   D．composition

9.                A．came on        B．came in         C．came out D．came back

10.               A．day            B．night           C．month D．year

11.               A．giving in        B．giving back      C．giving out  D．giving up

12.               A．while          B．if              C．when D．Or

13.               A．left            B．attended       C．changed   D．graduated

14.               A．just            B．exactly         C．so    D．very

15.               A．praised         B．said           C．answered  D．advised

B

One night a hotel caught fire(失火), and the people in the hotel ran out in their   61  clothes. Two men stood outside and looked at the fire. “  62  I came out, ” said one, “I ran into some of the rooms and found a lot of  63  . People don’t think of money when they are   64  . When anyone leaves paper money in a fire, the fire  65  it. So I took all the money I could find.   66   will become poorer because I took them.” 

“You don’t know me, ” said the other, “and you   67   my work.”

“What’s your work?”

“I’m a policeman.”

“Oh!”   68  the first man. He thought quickly and said, “And do you know my   69  ? I’m a writer. I’m always telling stories about the things that   70  happened. ”

　　Jim 1 to borrow a book from a new library （图书馆）.He comes to the library 2 Jack. They can't see 3 assistants （图书管理员） there, but only some robots （机器人） standing there. Then Jim 4 to the robot, “Hey, give 5 .”But the robot 6 .

　　“What's wrong 7 this robot?” he asks Jack.

　　Then Jack tells him, “When you want to borrow something from somebody, you must 8 'please' first.”

　　So Jim says, “Will you please give the book to me?” Mr Robot brings （带来） him the book. But again, Jim can't take the book out of the robots hand.

　　Jack says, “You must say ' 9 ' before you take the book.” So Jim says, “Oh, thank you very much, Mr Robot.”

　　The robot smiles （微笑） and 10 .

---Mum, I’m leaving for Beijing tomorrow morning.

--- Oh, good. But be sure to phone me _______ you get to Beijing, please.