【备考2015】2015高考英语分类汇编（1月 第八期）R单元（江西.docVIP

R单元　江西 目录 TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc411350368 R单元　江西 PAGEREF _Toc411350368 \h 1 HYPERLINK \l _Toc411350369 R0 阅读表达 PAGEREF _Toc411350369 \h 1 R0 阅读表达 【英语卷（解析）·2015届四川省成都市高中毕业班第一次诊断性检测（201412）WORD版】第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意每题词数要求）。 My name is Maria. I left university with a good degree in English Literature，but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years，I was trying to earn an income. I tried journalism，but I didnt think I was any good，then finance，which I hated. Finally，I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. When I had enough savings to take a year off work，I decided to try to satisfy a deep- down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure （构思）of writing my first 55，000 words. It takes confidence to make a new start一there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do， and you’re too ashamed to say，“Well，I’m writing a novel，but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.”My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published，I put it aside. Then I met an agent who said I should send my novel out to agents. So，I did and，to my surprise，got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and，after signing with an agent，I finished the second half of the novel. The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income， just waiting and wondering，a publisher offered me a book deal-that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for. It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck. When you set out to do something different，there’s no end in sight，so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同）of the publisher is unbelievably rewarding. 56. What did the author try before writing a novel（No more than 5 words）