Question

Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ___36___ was something she picked up by herself. After her first ___37___, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ___38___, writing stories was simply a ___39___ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商). ___40___, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long ___41___ and paid Tracy a $50,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for ___42___ writer. ”

___43___ Tracy’s characters(人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes ___44___ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could ___45___ 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 ___46___when things come to me ___47___. ” Once, she was wondering how to complete a ___48___ set in ancient(古代的) China. ___49___the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ___50___. It came without her having ___51___it.

Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained ___52___ by her fame. She lives in the same ___53___ ___ she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There

s more room for ___54___in her life ’t just ___55___.

36. A. skill     B. experience  C. practice      D. method

37. A. duty     B. effort  C. job     D. task

38. A. Instead B. Normally   C. Certainly    D. Then

39. A. general B. deep   C. personal     D. lively

40. A. Interested     B. Anxiously   C. Seriously    D. Encouraged

41. A. film     B. story   C. program     D. article

42. A. a foreign      B. a popular    C. an unusual  D. an unknown

43. A. Now that     B. Even though     C. Just because       D. Except that

44. A. find      B. turn    C. leave   D. hold

45. A. make up      B. connect with      C. control       D. explain

46. A. events   B. chances      C. feelings      D. moments

47. A. for no reason       B. from a distance        C. by accident D. as gifts

48. A. description   B. pointing     C. scene  D. talk

49. A. Surprisingly B. Suddenly    C. Expectedly D. Fortunately

50. A. cooking       B. history       C. play    D. medicine

51. A. known  B. sent    C. realized      D. ordered

52. A. unchanged   B. excited       C. determined D. unmoved

53. A. life       B. city     C. house  D. way

54. A. success B. work   C. joy     D. variety

55. A. writing B. reporting    C. luck    D. fun

Answer 1

36---55    ACDCA   BDBCB   DACBB  DADCA  

解析:

36. A。由定于從句中的pick up（學(xué)會）可排除B、C，method 強調(diào)以準確性或效率為目的，skill強調(diào)的是技巧，技能，寫作是一種技能。

37. C。teaching disabled children是一份工作，因此選C。

38. D。Then在這里起著承上啟下的作用。

39. C。general的意思是普通的、一般的；deep的意思是深刻的；lively的意思是活潑的；personal的意思是私人的、個人的， 聯(lián)系上下文，personal和 interest連用，是“個人愛好”的意思，最合文意。

40. A。這里的interested是過去分詞，與主語是被動的主謂關(guān)系。

41. B。題干中的them指Tracy交給出版商的三個故事，出版商建議她把三個故事合為一個故事。

42. D。在這之前Tracy沒有發(fā)表過作品，自然不著名。

43. B。前句說Tracy的故事很有趣，后句又說讓讀者uneasy，由此可知，前后兩句之間是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，選項中只有even if(即使……也)表轉(zhuǎn)折。

44. C。B、D項后不能接形容詞作賓語補足語，排除；leave+賓語+形容詞表示“使某人/某物處于某種狀態(tài)”，即使讀者不安擔(dān)心；find后加形容詞作賓語補足語的含義是“發(fā)現(xiàn)……處于某種狀態(tài)”，與文意不符。

45. B。從下一句的she used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago可知作者的母親相信作者能夠和陰世相聯(lián)絡(luò)，因此選B項。

46. D。因為空后是一個由when引導(dǎo)的時間定語從句，由此可反推出這里缺的是表示時間的詞語。

47. A。從下文所舉的例子可知，事情無緣無故地就發(fā)生了，for no reason是無緣無故的意思，from a distance表示從遠處；by accident表示偶然地。

48. C。因為Tracy是作家，選項中與創(chuàng)作有關(guān)的是情景創(chuàng)作，scene在這里指的是小說中的一個場景。

49. B。由語境可知Tracy正在寫作，門鈴響了對她來說是突然發(fā)生的事情。

50. B。這里選history與in ancient China呼應(yīng)。

51. D。要想讓FedEx delivery man把書送過來是要事先定好的，所以選order(預(yù)定)。

52. A。由下文she lives in the same……可知這一段是講Tracy沒有什么改變。

53. D。下文已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了a more comfortable home，那么這里就不可能指她住了27年的房子；life應(yīng)直接作live的賓語，所以不能選A 項；整篇文章沒有提到城市的問題；in the same way指同樣的方式，符合文意。

54. C。由上文comfortable，聯(lián)系到和工作（寫作）相對應(yīng)的應(yīng)該是娛樂。

55. A。該句的it承接上句指life，前文一直在介紹Tracy生活的一部分——寫作，但不是的生活的全部，該句也是There a more room for joy in her life的解釋。