Question

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ___36___ and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be ___37___ but a failure.”

After five years of ___38___ jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best ___39___ that could have happened to me. I ___40___ I wanted to do something positive (積極的) with my life because I wanted to prove to ___41___ that what people said about me was ___42___. Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s ___43___ it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ___44___ and went to college. My first novel (小說) ___45___ while I was at college.

After college I taught during the ___46___ in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a ___47___ in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ___48___ that job to write full time ___49___ I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself—___50___ was a working-class boy who’d ___51___ school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career (職業) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and ___52___, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. ___53___ what does it mean? I ___54___ wish all the people that have put me down had ___55___: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36. A. bright   B. useless       C. simple D. hopeful

37. A. anything      B. something  C. everything  D. nothing

38. A. low      B. poor   C. good   D. useful

39. A. support B. happiness   C. surprise      D. thing

40. A. admitted      B. decided      C. planned      D. told

41. A. me       B. them   C. her     D. it

42. A. wrong  B. right   C. stupid D. faulty

43. A. see       B. know  C. understand  D. face

44. A. experiment  B. practice      C. writing       D. composition

45. A. came on      B. came in      C. came out    D. came back

46. A. day      B. night   C. month D. year

47. A. graduation   B. pass    C. degree D. success

48. A. giving in     B. giving back       C. giving out  D. giving up

49. A. while   B. if C. when  D. or

50. A. there    B. here    C. it D. that

51. A. left      B. attended    C. changed     D. graduated

52. A. tired     B. calm   C. nervous      D. famous

53. A. And     B. But     C. However    D. Well

54. A. just      B. exactly       C. so       D. very

55. A. praised B. said    C. answered    D. advised

Answer 1

36---55           BABDB   CADCC   ACDCB   ADBAB     

解析:

本文主要講我們即便身處劣境，也不要氣餒，而應保持積極的心態，努力進取。同時作者也希望人們能給那些表現不很出色的人多一些鼓勵。

36. B。前句說“我”在學校表現不好，故此處用useless表示校長認為“我”是一個“無用”的人。

37. A。anything but 是習語，意為“決不”“根本不”，與其前的否定詞never構成雙重否定，表示強調的肯定，即校長認為我肯定是一個失敗的人。

38. B。從下文來看，情況一直都不好，故用poor。

39. D。對“我”這樣一個境況如此糟糕的人來說，能與 a very nice middle-class girl談戀愛，當然是一件最好的事了。

40. B。此處指作者下決心(decide)要做一些積極的事情以改變自己的境況。

41. C。此處指作者要向其女朋友證明不像別人所說的那樣不行。

42. A。指作者想證明，人們認為他不行的看法是錯誤的(wrong)。

43. D。Let’s face it 意為“咱們面對現實吧”。

44. C。根據下一句提到的 my first novel 可知此處應填空C。

45. C。come out 在此指“出版”。

46. A。與下文的evening class 相對，處指用 during the day。

47. C。get a degree 指獲得學位。degree 意為“學位”。

48. D。此處指作者想辭掉工作做一個專職作家，故用give up。

49. C。指就在那時作者得到了一份在大學兼職的工作，when意為“就在那時”。

50. B。此處here表示一種自豪的心態。

51. A。leave school 指“退學”。

52. D。下文中說作者出現在電視上，并且與rich 并列，因此填famous。

53. B。but 表轉折，即有錢和有名又能意味什么呢?

54. A。/ 55. B。此句的意思是：“我”只是想，要是那些曾經瞧不起我的人能說“我想信你，你會成功的”該是多好啊。