Question

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beat   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   I wanted-to do something positive (積極地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my  44   and went to college. My first novel (小說)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University,  where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of  48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself ―  50   was a working-.class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university

My writing career (職業) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52  , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

 

36．A．bright	B．useless	C．simple	D．hopeful
37．A．anything	B．something	C．everything	D．nothing
38．A．low	B．poor	C．good	D．useful
39 A．support	B．happiness	C．surprise	D．thing
40．A．admitted	B．decided	C．planned	D．told
41．A．me	B．them	C．her	D．it
42．A．wrong	B．right	C．stupid	D．faulty
43．A．see	B．know	C．understand	D．face
44．A．experiment	B．practice	C．writing	D．composition
45．A．came on	B．came in	C．came out	D．came back
46．A．day	B．night	C．month	D．year
47．A．graduation	B．pass	C．degree	D．success
48．A．giving in	B．giving back	C．giving out	D．giving up
49．A．while	B．if	C．when	D．or
50．A．there	B．here	C．it	D．that
51．A．left	B．attended	C．changed	D．graduated
52．A．tired	B．calm	C．nervous .	D．famous
53．A．And	B．But	C．However	D．Well
54．A．just	B．exactly	C．so	D．very
55．A．praised	B．said	C．answered	D．advised

 

Answer 1

37.A 

解析：由于句子中出現了never，表示否定的意思，用anything，此句的意思是：除了失敗以外，你什么也做不成功的。校長的話是對“我”的全盤否定。

38.B  因為沒有學到知識，所以前五年所干的工作就很差的。

39.D 

解析：我愛上了一個漂亮的中層社會的女孩子，這在我看來是不可能的。所以，對我來說就是一個很傷心的事。而不是happiness（高心），也不是surprise(吃驚)的事。A項與文章的意思沒有聯系。

40.B 

解析：我決定從次應該在生活中做一些積極的事情。

41.C 

解析：同時我也想向她證明：人們對我的看法是錯誤的。

42.A 

解析：根據第41題的解析。

43.D 

解析：根據此處的意思：尤其是那個女孩子的母親所說的：讓我們真正的面對這件事情，你所做的一切事情都是失敗的，看來別人都對作者“我”是一種看不起的態度。

44.C 

解析：從后面的My first novel，可以知道“我”開始了寫作。

45.C 

解析：短語come out的意思為“出版”。

46.A 

解析：根據文章后面的attended evening classes，可以推斷出“我”白天在一所中學教書。

47.C 

解析：短語get a degree in history意思為“取得了歷史學學位”。

48.D 

解析：當我們取得了學位后，就成為了大學的一位教師，但是我考慮要放棄這個工作，去從事自己喜歡的專職寫作。give in的意思為“屈服、讓步”；give back的意思為“歸還、恢復”；give out為“分發、發出(氣味、熱等)”，均與文章后的意思不一致。

49.C 

解析：在那個時候Leeds University給我提供了一份業余工作。

50.B 

解析：此處表現出作者一種自豪的心情：在這里我曾以一個工人階級的孩子畢業，現在我卻在這里教書。

51.A 

解析：短語leave school意思為“畢業”。而短語graduate from school才正確。

52.D 

解析：當我有了自己的寫作風格的時候，我成名了，我也就變得富有了。注意take off的意思為“成名，出名”，與此處的空是一致的。

53.B 

解析：表示意思的轉折。

54.A 

解析：just表示“僅僅”，而exactly意思為“準確地”。

55.B 

解析：由于后面是一句話，所以應該是say，而不是praise(贊揚)，answer(回答)，advise(建議)。此句的意思是：我僅僅希望所有曾經瞧不起我的人說一句：我信任你，你將會成功的。