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  3. Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1)_____ of a writer, for example, is (2)_____ a sligh

Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1)_____ of a writer, for example, is (2)_____ a sligh

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问题     Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1)_____ of a writer, for example, is (2)_____ a slightly crazy-looking person, (3)_____ in an attic, writing away furiously for days (4)_____ end. Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5)_____ which he could not produce a readable word.
    Nowadays, we know that such images bear little (6)_____ to reality. But are they completely (7)_____? In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not. Dame Muriel Spark, who (8)_____ 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not (9)_____, and she doesn’t work in an attic. But she is rather particular (10)_____ the tools of her trade.
    She insists on writing with a (11)_____ type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain stationer in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (12)_____ is she that, if someone uses one of her pens by (13)_____, she immediately throws it away. And she claims she (14)_____ enormous difficulty writing in any notebook other than (15)_____ sold by James Thin. This could soon be a (16)_____, as the shop no longer stocks them, (17)_____ Dame Muriel’s supply of 72-page spiral bound is nearly (18)_____.
    As well as her "obsession" about writing materials, Muriel Spark (19)_____ one other characteristic with the stereotypical "writer": her work is the most (20)_____ thing in her life. It has stopped her from marrying; cost her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.

选项 A、mistake
B、error
C、accidence
D、chance
答案D
解析 此处应指别人偶然用了该作家的笔。by chance意为"偶然地"，故"chance"正确。by mistake意为"错误地"，如果两个人相互间拿错了笔，那可以用此短语，但文中仅指出由于某种原因别人用了该作家的笔，不一定是因为拿错的关系，故此短语不宜用在这里。by accident也是"偶然"的意义，但有不良后果的含义，词义过重。by error与by mistake词义基本相同，也不适用于这里。
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