北京2017年成人学位英语考试考前必做试题及答案四
一、阅读理解(1-15)
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’’s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hour alone at a typewriter. "You’’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer".
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance(自由栏目 )writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write, I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’’t going to be one of those people who die wondering: What if ? I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
1. The passage is meant to______.
A warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience
B advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer
C show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame
D encourage young people to pursue a writing career
答案:A
2. What can be concluded from the passage?
A Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.
B A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on efforts.
C Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.
D The chances for writer to become successful are small
答案:D
3. Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?
A He wasn’t able to produce a single book.
B He hadn’t seen aching for the better.
C He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.
D He though that he lacked imagination.
答案:B
4. …people who die wondering: What if ?(Para-3) refers to "those_____".
A who think too much of the dark side of life
B who regret giving up their career halfway
C who think a lot without making a decision
D who are full of imagination even upon death
答案:C
5. Shadowland in the last sentence refers to_____.
A the wonderland on often dreams about
B the bright future that one is looking forward to
C the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached
D a world that exists only in one’s imagination
答案:C
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