8.选D)。由空格前的to可知,此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt,persuade,encourage,但由still hadnt gotten a break在写作上还没有任何进展,所以此处应理解为他开始怀疑自己的选择是否正确,故doubt符合文意。
9.选A)。that从句结构完整,后面有made,故此处应填副词。可选项有barely和impossibly,因that引导的从句是对story的解释,再由hard一词可推知,此处应填的副词应表达肯定的意思,故排除impossibly而选barely仅仅,刚刚。
10.选I)。由空格后的and可知,此处应填名词。由fear of failure可知,所填词应表示不好的境遇,可选项有poverty和uncertainty;又由fear可推知,此处强调的是生活的变化无常,而不是生活的贫困,故选uncertainty。
导读:
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always K)encourage such people, but I also explain that theres a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of N)wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. Youve got to want to write,I say to them, not want to be a writer.The reality is that writing is a E)lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never C)rewarded.
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no H)prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building.
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