2016年浙江省杭州市外国语学校高考英语（阅读理解提分训练）每日一练15_高考复习指南

2016年浙江省杭州市外国语学校高考英语（阅读理解提分训练）每日一练15

　　Once back in California, London became determined to earn a living as a writer. He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day, spinning his Alaskan adventures into short stories and novels.

　　According to legend, London’s piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height!

　　Even so, London preserved. In 1903, he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild. He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country. During his career, he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars. Several of his novels, including The Call of the Wild (1903),the Sea-Wolf (1904),the White Fang (1906), have become American classics. In fact, he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from traditional love stories and dystopias (反面乌托邦小说) to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war communication, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers (麻风病患者). He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world. His best works describe a person’s struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature. “To Build a Fire”, for example, tells the story of a man’s fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter.