Question

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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

After five years of ________ jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best ________ that could have happened to me. I ________0 I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to ________ that what people said about me was ________. Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s ________ it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ________ and went to college. My first novel _ ________ while I was at college.

After college I taught during the________in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a ________in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ________that job to write full time________ I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —________ was a working-class boy who’d ________ school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and ________ , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. ________ what does it mean? I ________ wish all the people that have put me down had ________ : “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. see B. know C. understand D. face

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

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

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

12.A. graduation B. pass C. degree D. success

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

14.A. while B. if C. when D. or

15.A. there B. here C. it D. that

Answer 1