考研《英语一》2023年山西省朔州市右玉县高分冲刺试题含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》2023年山西省朔州市右玉县高分冲刺试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) I first started writing in the summer of 1998. Back then I was a teacher. After years of dreaming, I decided it was finally time to write a book. For 10 years I wrote, 1 four middle-grade novels and six pictures books almost only to editors. This was 2 in the snail-mail age. Remember the 3 you experienced as a child waiting for birthday presents to arrive in the mail? That was me for the better part of a decade. In Spring 2009, at the last minute, I decided to hand in a middle-grade historical novel-in-verse to a 4 at a local writing conference. I knew in my heart that it was my 5 work, but I wasn’t sure how it would be 6 alongside pieces meant for the adult market. But then ----I won. My prize 7 a one-on-one interview with an editor who, after 8 my manuscript, asked, “Why don’t you have a(n) 9 yet?” Not long after that, I 10 with my first agent. Then in 2013, after parting with my first agent, I was again faced with the 11 for representation. This time I submitted to three agencies and got two 12 . Over the span of 20 years, I’ve got 18 completed manuscripts and was 13 almost 350 times. It took me 14 years to see my first book 14 the shelf. You could look at these numbers and get pretty 15 . I can look at these numbers and feel the same. I know plenty of people with a 16 apprenticeship(学徒期). I have friends who have been more 17 . All sorts of authors I 18 with in 2012 have published far more than I have. But here’s the 19 thing I’ve learned in the last 20 years: My process is mine. My journey is mine. Each book finds its way on its own. The writing life is a long-term journey. There is no right way. There is no 20 fix. There is no easy road. There is a lot of