题目内容：

第一节   完形填空（共20 小题，每小题1.5分 ，满分30分）

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

After five years of ________ jobs, I fell in love with a very middle-class girl. It was the best ________ that could have happened to me. I ________ to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to ________ that what people said about me was ________, especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s ________ it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”

So I tried hard with my ________ and went to college. My first novel _____ while I was at college.

After college I taught during the ________ in high school and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a ________ in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ________ that job to write full time ________ I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself: ________ was a working-class boy who’d ________ 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 ________, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. ________ what does it mean? I ________ wish all the people that have put me down had ________:“I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.A. brightB. uselessC. simpleD. hopeful

2.A. anythingB. somethingC. everythingD. nothing

3.A. lowB. usefulC. goodD. poor

4.A. supportB. happinessC. surpriseD. thing

5.A. admittedB. decidedC. plannedD. told

6.A. meB. themC. herD. it

7.A. wrongB. rightC. stupidD. faulty

8.A. seeB. knowC. understandD. face

9.A. experimentB. practiceC. writingD. composition

10.A. came onB. came inC. came outD. came back

11.A. dayB. nightC. monthD. year

12.A. graduationB. passC. degreeD. success

13.A. giving inB. giving back

C. giving outD. giving up

14.A. whileB. ifC. whenD. or

15.A. thereB. hereC. itD. that

16.A. leftB. attendedC. changedD. graduated

17.A. tiredB. calmC. nervousD. famous

18.A. AndB. ButC. HoweverD. Well

19.A. justB. exactlyC. soD. very

20.A. praisedB. saidC. answeredD. advised