2013年下半年,英语四级将改革,局部题型发生变化。选词填空在英语四级考试中,是考生们很难逾越的难关,很多考生做到这类题型都会选择直接放弃。其实,只要大量练习,再加上归纳总结,选词填空拿高分并不难。下面小编整理了选词填空题型训练,希望对考生们有帮助。
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people,but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these 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 writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands 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 York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’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’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of 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