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PAGE PAGE 5Uint 11 The Media课时练2　知识运用板块练eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅰ) 完形填空(2018·湖北部分重点中学高三起点考试)From childhood，Moira loved to write. Throughout school she __1__ writing, but pursuing(追求) it __2__ was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse.“Medicine was a fairly __3__ option，” Moira says. “And writing was a career where it wasn’t a __4__ that you’d have high income.”She became a doctor but still wanted to do some writing. However, being a doctor was so __5__ that she didn’t take up writing until her thirties. She __6__ a novel—a fictionalized version of her travels in China after university. She got excellent __7__. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to __8__ her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her __9__ as an author. “I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we __10__ all possible areas she thought needed __11__．I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything.” It was not long __12__ Moira found another agent who was __13__ if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter：‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested.’ It was really __14__．”A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time __15__ for her own enjoyment. She __16__ herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters __17__ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just __18__ out.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.“__19__ it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the __20__，” says Moira.【解题导语】　本文通过Moira爱好写作并坚持写作的故事告诉我们：每个人都要为实现自己的梦想而去努力尝试，只有经历过才能够有所得，在追求的过程中不要过于担心结果，只有这样才能成功。1．A.learnt B．avoidedC．considered D．enjoyedD　解析：根据首句“