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  Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people,but Ialso explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most casesthese individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."The reality is that writingis a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune therearethousands more whose longing is never __4__.

  When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New Yorkapartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediatelybought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I stillhadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’tgoing to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream tothe test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow landof hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.

  A) barely

  B) genuine

  C) rewarded

  D) doubt

  E) lonely

  F) poverty

  G) persuade

  H) prospects

  I)uncertainty

  J)impossibly

  K)encourage

  L)awarded

  M) alone

  N)wealth

  O)cold

  答案解析:

  1.选K

  2.选N

  3.选E

  4.选C

  5.选H

  6.选O

  7.选B

  8.选D

  9.选A

  10.选I

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