When 27 years of age, Bums first attracted literary attention, and in the same moment sprang to, the first place in Scottish letters. In despair over his poverty and personal habits, he resolved to emigrate to Jamaica, and gathered a few of his early poems, hoping to sell them for enough to pay the expenses of his journey. The result was the famous Kilmarnock edition of Burns, published in 1786, for which he was offered 20 pounds. It is said that he even bought his ticket, and on the night before the ship sailed wrote his "Farewell to Scotland", which he intended to be his last song on Scottish soil.
In the morning he changed his mind, led partly by the dim foreshadowing of the result of his literary ad venture for the little book caught all Scotland by storm. Not only scholars and literary men, but "even plow boys and maid servants", eagerly spent their hard earned shillings for the new book. Instead of going to America, the young poet hurried
A. his trips there were too frequent
B. their interest in his poems began to decrease
C. they disapproved of his habits
D. they could not catch up with his fast-paced life style
You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. (36) is very easy to enter the shop looking (37) a book on, say, ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the (38) best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-robbing (39) which had only vaguely interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, (40) to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting, (41) you just had to buy it. This sort of thing (42) be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can (43) a great deal of time wandering from section to section. Book-sellers must be both long-suffering and indulgent.
There is a (44) which well illustrates this. A medical student had to read a text-book which was far too expensive for him to (45) . He couldn’t obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in his bookshop. (4
A. In
B. To
C. At
D. On
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