Jeffrey Zaslow, the advice columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, grew up in suburban Philadelphia. His biggest 【B1】______in life

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问题     Jeffrey Zaslow, the advice columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, grew up in suburban Philadelphia. His biggest 【B1】______in life was to be a writer. "I never wanted to be anything else," he says. "I was ten or eleven when I saw Gone with the Wind and I wrote my own Civil War story." After 【B2】______a degree in 【B3】______writing at Carnegie Mellon University, he got a job at a newspaper in Orlando, Florida. He made his mark with his article on the 【B4】______working conditions endured by the people inside the Mickey and Minnie costumes at Walt Disney World. Later he became a 【B5】______writer for The Wall Street Journal.
    In 1988, when the famous advice columnist, Ann Landers, 【B6】______her job at the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper 【B7】______a nationwide contest to find her replacement. Jeffrey Zaslow【B8】______. Among the 12,000 contestants, women outnumbered men nine to one, 【B9】______. When he reached the semi-finals, his editors at the Journal ran a headline: "Why He’ll Never Make it". But Jeffrey did make it to the finals.
    Today, eighteen years later, his column, "All the Jazz" is read by thousands of readers in the
Chicago area. 【B10】______. He is also greatly moved by the generosity, sincerity and good nature of his readers. "Wonderful people," he says, "do outnumber terrible people in this world. 【B11】______
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解析 空前的After及空后的名词a degree(学位)表明,本空应填一动名词。下文提到carnegieMellon University和degree,由此可知此处应填表示“拿到(学位)”意思的词。
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