I don’t know how I became a writer, but
I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that
finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class
of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and
veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and
the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a
man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet’s Soliloquy, Macbeth,
Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration, Grey’s Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it
all as a child; I memorized and learned it all He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grow stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, A. made an important contribution B. insisted that he choose writing as a career C. opposed his becoming a writer D. insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer [填空题]
Part B How does your reading proceed Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar. (41)_____________________________________You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where. The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues; (42)_________________________________ Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or ‘true’ meaning th [单项选择]A) Whether the woman knows how to type.
B) Why the woman is in a hurry. C) How much typing the woman needs done. D) Whether the woman has a typewriter. [填空题]A. How about it B. She didn’t know
C. get the money for you D. we didn’t have it E. it’s a size 40 F. it’s wrong color G. get a right one for you H. What’s the matter with it John: Hi, Miss, can I return this shirt Saleswoman : (56) John: It’s the wrong size. I wear size 42, but (57) . Saleswoman: I remember now. Your wife bought it yesterday. She wanted size 41 ,but (58) She then took the smaller size. John: (59) that I now wear size 42. Saleswoman: We don’t have a size 42, either. Ok, I’ll (60) . 我来回答: 提交
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