Question

I don’t know how I became a writer，but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel.My people were of the working class of people.My father，a stone?cutter，was a man with a great respect and veneration (崇敬) for literature.He had a tremendous memory，and he loved poetry，and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like.Nevertheless it was good poetry，Hamlet’s Soliloquy，Macbeth，Mark Antony’s “Funeral Oration”，Grey’s “Elegy”，and all the rest of it.I heard it all as a child；I memorized and learned it all.

He sent me to college to the state university.The desire to write，which had been strong during all my days in high school，grew stronger still.I was editor of the college paper，the college magazine，etc.，and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there.I wrote several little one?act plays，still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man，never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer.Then I went to Harvard，wrote some more plays there，became obsessed with (著迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright，left Harvard，had my plays rejected，and finally in the autumn of 1926，how，why，or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine.But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel，I began to write my first book in London.I was living all alone at that time.I had two rooms—a bedroom and a sitting room—in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar，smoked brick and cream?yellow?plaster look.

1．We may conclude，in regard to the author’s development as a writer，that his father________.

A．made an important contribution

B．insisted that he choose writing as a career

C．opposed his becoming a writer

D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of________.

A．his special talent

B．his father’s teaching and encouragement

C．his study at Harvard

D．a(chǎn) hidden urge within him

3．The author________.

A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

B．had always been successful in his writing career

C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays

D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

4．The author really started on his way to become a writer______.

A．when he was in high school

B．when he was studying at Harvard

C．when he lived in London

D．a(chǎn)fter he entered college

5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?

A．He left Harvard and got married.

B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.

C．He started his dream as a writer.

D．He began to think seriously what to do.

 

Answer 1

【語篇解讀】　從小受父親的影響，作者酷愛文學(xué)創(chuàng)作，大學(xué)的寫作經(jīng)歷培養(yǎng)了信心；雖然也有過挫折和迷茫，但最終內(nèi)心寫作的夢(mèng)想變成了現(xiàn)實(shí)。

1．A　考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。參照第一段的相關(guān)內(nèi)容“My father，...with a great respect and veneration for literature.He had a tremendous memory，and he loved poetry...I heard it all as a child，I memorized and learned it all.”可知答案。

2．D　考查推理判斷。參照第一段中“but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel.”可知答案。

3．A　考查推理判斷。參照第二段中“...had my plays rejected”可排除B項(xiàng)；文章無C項(xiàng)相關(guān)內(nèi)容；參考第二段中“I was editor of the college paper，the college magazine，ect，...”可推測(cè)“作者僅是大學(xué)報(bào)刊雜志的編輯”，所以排除D項(xiàng)；參考第二段中“Then I went to Harvard，wrote some more plays there，became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright，”可推測(cè)A項(xiàng)正確。

4．D　考查推理判斷。參照第二段中“The desire to write，which had been strong during all my days in high school，grew stronger still.”可知答案。

5．B　考查句子理解。參考第二段中“and finally in the autumn of 1926，how，why，or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine.”可知答案。