2013年12月英语四级选词填空实例训练（十七）

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2013年下半年，英语四级将改革，局部题型发生变化。选词填空在英语四级考试中，是考生们很难逾越的难关，很多考生做到这类题型都会选择直接放弃。其实，只要大量练习，再加上归纳总结，选词填空拿高分并不难。下面小编整理了选词填空题型训练，希望对考生们有帮助。
　　Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people,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, notthe 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 arethousands more whose longing is never __4__.
　　When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(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 feltlike 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 storythat __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.
　　A) barely
　　B) genuine
　　C) rewarded
　　D) doubt
　　E) lonely
　　F) poverty
　　G) persuade
　　H) prospects
　　I)uncertainty
　　J)impossibly
　　K)encourage
　　L)awarded
　　M) alone
　　N)wealth
　　O)cold
　　答案解析：
　　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