首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big diff
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big diff
admin
2010-10-14
81
问题
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer. ’
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor - paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20 - year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What fie. I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
"Shadowland" in the last sentence refers to ______.
选项
A、the wonderland one often dreams about
B、the bright future that one is looking forward to
C、the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached
D、a world that exists only in one’s imagination
答案
C
解析
依据文章最后“...even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure.This is the Shadowland of hope,and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.”显然,最后一句中的This应该指代前面的“uncertainty and fear of failure”是指一种不敢肯定,无法把握的心态。但也是每个梦想成功的作家的必经之途,所以选项C符合题意。A
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/O087777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
EmployersandcareerexpertsseeagrowingprobleminAmericansociety--a(n)【C1】______ofcollegegraduates,manyburdenedwitht
A、Themindshouldbequietandconsciousbutalert.B、Themindshouldberelaxandunconscious.C、Themindshouldbequietands
A、DesertandIce—aHotTopic.B、RiversandOceans—aHotTopic.C、MeltingIce—aHotTopic.D、TreesandForest—aHotTopic.C事实细节题
Almost20,000whaleshavebeenslaughteredsincea【B1】______oncommercialwhalingwasintroducedin1986andthedeath【B2】______
AnEnglishschoolboywouldonlyaskhisfriend:"Wassatime,then?"Tohisteacherhewouldbemuchmorelikelytospeakinamo
Onesummernight,onmywayhomefromworkIdecidedtoseeamovie.Iknewthetheatrewouldbeair-conditionedandIcouldn’t
A、TheflatinBakerStreethasalreadybeenrented.B、Theflatisinaverygoodlocation.C、Thewomanmightnotbeabletorent
Wefeel____________(是……的时候)thatthegovernmentdidsomethingtochecktheinflation.
A、Arecreationalprogram.B、Aneducationalprogram.C、Aprogramforcartoons.D、Aprogramforcommercials.B推理判断题。预读选项可知此题询问的是电视
A、Herphonenumber.B、Thelocationoftheapartment.C、Thebesttimetocallher.D、Herfirstname.A告内容提及了B,C。问题是Cecilia忘了告诉Ma
随机试题
学校及其他教育机构的校长或者主要行政负责人必须具有的条件是()
急性弥漫性腹膜炎时反映病情加重的体征是
具有"滋阴透热"功用的药对为
建筑工程使用的花岗岩比大理石()。【2004年真题】
20世纪50年代初兴起于德国的“范例教学”的提出者是()。
生态入侵是指人们有意识或无意识地把某种生物带人适宜其栖息和繁衍的地区,使得该生物种群不断扩大,分布区不断稳定地扩展,从而危害当地的生产和生活,改变当地生态环境的过程。根据上述定义,下列属于生态入侵的是()。
如图所示,水平地面上的物体,在水平恒定的拉力F的作用下,沿A、B.C方向做加速运动.已知AB段是光滑的,拉力F做功W1,BC是粗糙的,拉力F做功W2,则W1和W2的关系是()。
祖父现在的年龄是小明的6倍,过几年之后,祖父的年龄将是小明的5倍,再过几年之后,祖父的年龄将是小明的4倍,请问小明今年多少岁?()
简述宣告失踪的概念及条件。
FormanypeopleintheU.S.,sportsarenotjustforfun.Theyarealmostareligion.Thousandsofsportsfansbuyexpensivetic
最新回复
(
0
)