B．Just a minute.

　　C．What’s the matter?

　　D．At your service.Ⅱ.完形填空

　　(2017·湖南高考命题研究专家原创卷)Let’s go back 70 years or so and I’ll show you what it was like being a “girl reporter”．

　　My father was far __1__ of his time in believing girls must be able to earn a living. We were sitting in his study __2__ my future.

　　“Dickens started out as a reporter, and Kipling went to India for a newspaper，” he said.

　　I __3__ sadly, “Oh, Papa, girls can’t work on newspapers.”

　　“A few do，” he said. “More will. Women are a gold mine of talent.”

　　The fact was that none of my families was on my team, except my father. I was __4__ all the time—of deadlines, of having to write so fast. I wanted to be a __5__. I believed I could grow into a writer. And I prayed to God that I could be both.

　　Then, I interviewed the sister of the Wright brothers who __6__ the airplane.

　　“These boys, over 30, spent their days messing with kites, gliders (滑翔机) and an engine. College professors had __7__ positively that men would never fly, yet Wilbur and Orville kept revising and __8__ that ‘flying machine’ that couldn’t work，” their sister said to me simply, “And then, one day, it flew！”

　　Those words kept me from quitting then—or ever. I was __9__. Eventually came my first scoop (独家资讯), my first by－line, my first short story, my first book.

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