問題詳情
CI left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Blieving my novel could not be published, I put it aside.Then I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同)of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding(有回报的).
49.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?
(A)I was waiting for good fortune.
(B) I was trying to find an admirable job.
(C) I was being aimless about a suitable job.
(D)I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
49.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?
(A)I was waiting for good fortune.
(B) I was trying to find an admirable job.
(C) I was being aimless about a suitable job.
(D)I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
參考答案
答案:C
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)
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