2017年6月英语四级阅读选词填空练习及答案(四)
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ suchpeople, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer"
and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, not
the long hours 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 __3__, private
and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands
more whose longing is never __4__.
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelance
writer(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ 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
__6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt
like a __7__ writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break
and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a story that __9__ 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 ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting
my dream to the test — even though it meant living with __10__and fear of
failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live
there.
barely
genuine
rewarded
doubt
lonely
poverty
persuade
prospects
uncertainty
impossibly
encourage
awarded
alone
wealth
cold
参考答案：
1.选K
2.选N
3.选E
4.选C
5.选H
6.选O
7.选B
8.选D
9.选A
10.选I
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