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1、 2022年12月英语四级阅读理解练习题及答案解析(18)Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always _1_ such people, but I also explain that theresa 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. “Yo
2、uve 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 freelancewr
3、iter(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 didnt 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 hadnt gotten a b
4、reak 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 wasnt 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_a
5、nd fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.A) barelyB) genuineC) rewardedD) doubt来源：考试大E) lonelyF) povertyG) persuadeH) prospectsI) uncertaintyJ)impossiblyK) encourageL)awardedM) aloneN)wealthO)cold【答案】1.选K)。 此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encour
6、age, 但由always推知，是在鼓舞那些想要成为作家的人，而不是疑心也不是说服，故排解doubt和persuade而选encourage。2.选N)。由空格后的fame可知，此处应填名词。可选项有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of 与其次段中The reality is. poor-paying可推知，那些想当作家的人幻想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排解prospects而选wealth。3.选E)。此处应填形容词，private, poor-paying一起修饰affair。选项中有lonely和alone,能修饰affair的只有lonely,alone表示
7、“孤独的”时，通常作表语，故排解alone而选lonely。4.选C)。此处应填动词的被动形式。可选项有rewarded和awarded,前者可表示“(为所盼望的举动得到的)回报”，后者作动词时表示“颁发，授予”，故只有rewarded符合题意而排解awarded。5.选H)。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队20年工作成为一个自由撰稿人时，没有任何.可言”，可选项有prospects和wealth，但wealth一般指抽象意义上的“金钱”，因此排解wealth而选prospects“前途”。6.选O)。it指代的是apartment building，从had no bathroo
8、m可知这个公寓条件很差，选项中只有cold能说明公寓的条件差，应选择O)cold。7.选B)。“我立刻买了一台旧的手动打字机，感觉自己就似乎是一个.的作家”，由前面提到的to become a freelance writer可推知，此处是想成为一个真正的作家，应选项中只有genuine“真正的”符合题意。8.选D)。由空格前的to可知，此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt,persuade,encourage,但由still hadnt gotten a break“在写作上还没有任何进展”，所以此处应理解为他开头疑心自己的选择是否正确，故doubt符合文意。9.选A)。that从句构造完整，后面有made，故此处应填副词。可选项有barely和impossibly，因that引导的从句是对story的解释，再由hard一词可推知，此处应填的副词应表达确定的意思，故排解impossibly而选barely“仅仅，刚刚”。10.选I)。由空格后的and可知，此处应填名词。由fear of failure可知，所填词应表示不好的境遇，可选项有poverty和uncertainty;又由fear可推知，此处强调的是生活的变化无常，而不是生活的贫困，应选uncertainty。
