英语四级选词填空练习和答案(2)
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