阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ____, writing stories was simply a ____ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. ____, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long ____ and paid Tracy a $ 15,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for ____ writer.”
____ Tracy’s characters are interesting, her stories sometimes ____ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could ____ the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I ? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have ____ when things come to me ____. “Once, she was wondering how to complete a ____ set in ancient China. ____ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ____. It came without her having ____ it.
Though she has published 45 books, Tracy has remained ____ by her fame. She lives in the same ____ she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for ____ in her life — and it wasn’t just __ __.
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A.practice |
B.experience |
C.skill |
D.method |
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A.job |
B.effort |
C.duty |
D.task |
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A.Instead |
B.Then |
C.Certainly |
D.Normally |
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A.general |
B.deep |
C.lively |
D.personal |
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A.Interested |
B.Anxiously |
C.Seriously |
D.Encouraged |
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A.story |
B.film |
C.program |
D.article |
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A.a foreign |
B.a popular |
C.an unknown |
D.an unusual |
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A.Now that |
B.Even though |
C.Just because |
D.Except that |
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A.find |
B.turn |
C.hold |
D.leave |
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A.connect with |
B.make up |
C.control |
D.explain |
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A.events |
B.moments |
C.feelings |
D.chances |
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A.as gifts |
B.from a distance |
C.by accident |
D.for no reason |
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A.description |
B.condition |
C.scene |
D.talk |
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A.Surprisingly |
B.Fortunately |
C.Expectedly |
D.Suddenly |
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A.cooking |
B.medicine |
C.history |
D.play |
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A.ordered |
B.sent |
C.realized |
D.known |
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A.determined |
B.excited |
C.unchanged |
D.unmoved |
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A.life |
B.way |
C.house |
D.city |
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A.success |
B.joy |
C.work |
D.variety |
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A.reporting |
B.fun |
C.luck |
D.writing |
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