题目内容：

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 beatific   39  that could have happened to me. I  40  I wanted to do something positive (积极地) 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   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 (职业) 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.”

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

14.               A．while          B．if             C．or    D．when

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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