2017届高考英语一轮复习知识点专练：听力模拟题组三_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮复习知识点专练：听力模拟题组三

　　M: Ms. Robinson, you know we need people who can keep up and work as a team.

　　W: Mr. Travers, my mother was just diagnosed with stomach cancer. I've been spending all my time outside of work at the hospital with her. I've been so exhausted and then Morison in my office made a joke the other day about cancer victims losing their hair, so we quarreled.

　　M: Oh, I have no idea, Ms. Robinson.

　　W: I know my work has suffered these past few weeks, but I promise I will make up for it.

　　M: Listen, why don't you take a couple of days off? It's much more important that you be with your mother while she is recovering.

　　W: Really, sir? Thank you so much!

　　M: My pleasure! And I will have a word with Morison. That kind of talk has no place in this office.

　　Text 10

　　When I was 15, I announced to my class that I was going to write my own books. Half the classmates ignored me and the rest nearly fell out of their chair laughing. I was so hurt that I burst into tears. That night I wrote a short, sad poem about broken dreams and mailed it to a local newspaper. Surprisingly, they published it and sent me two dollars. I was a published and paid writer. I showed my fellow classmates the paper. They laughed and said, “Just luck.” But I had tasted the success and I had sold the first thing I wrote. That was more than the laugh had done to me. During the next two years, I sold dozens of poems, letters, jokes and essays. By the time I graduated from high school, I had owned a book filled with my published works. And now I am a professional writer and my novels are popular with readers. But I still keep the habit of reviewing that first published poem when I am in low spirits or meet unfair book reviews. It will always remind me how I started in the first place.