Jay Wilson was my English teacher at Lake Forest High School. It was him
realized my potential in writing, and his
made me a writer eventually.
He was kind to me, but I had no
that he took particular notice of me. There were other
kids in the class, and soon I fell back into my usual
and thought that I was just a little over average in most things. Near the end of the term, we began to read the play--Macbeth. Believe me, this is not an easy play for high school students to understand,
I spent a lot of time reading it. After working till the night before it was due, I wrote a paper about the
— the first paper I typed on a typewriter — and turned it
the next day.
I got a good
on it, and below the grade Mr. Wilson wrote, “Sure
you become a writer.” That was it. Those six words were written in his clear and neat handwriting. It was the first time he or anyone had
in any way that writing was a
option for me. We’d never had any writers in our family line, and we didn’t know any writers personally, even
, so writing for a living didn’t seem something
to me. But then, just like that, Jay Wilson tapped my hidden
and let me see a wider world.
Over the next 10 years, I often
about Mr. Wilson’s six words. Whenever I felt discouraged, it was those six words that came back to me and gave me
. When a few instructors in college gently and not-so-gently tried to tell me I had no talent, I held Mr. Wilson’s
before me to protect myself. I didn’t
what anyone else thought. Mr. Wilson, head of the whole English department at Lake Forest High,
I could be a writer. So I put my head down and struggled forward. 396
| 小题2: | | A．knowledge | B．confidence | C．influence | D．assignment |
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| 小题3: | | A．intention | B．concern | C．doubt | D．sense |
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| 小题4: | | A．older | B．smarter | C．richer | D．luckier |
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| 小题5: | | A．location | B．position | C．motivation | D．qualification |
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| 小题7: | | A．work | B．term | C．class | D．play |
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| 小题9: | | A．grade | B．praise | C．idea | D．start |
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| 小题10: | | A．wonder | B．hope | C．make | D．help |
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| 小题11: | | A．arranged | B．persuaded | C．announced | D．indicated |
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| 小题12: | | A．career | B．study | C．hobby | D．method |
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| 小题13: | | A．distantly | B．frequently | C．actually | D．obviously |
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| 小题14: | | A．necessary | B．precious | C．different | D．available |
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| 小题15: | | A．talent | B．memory | C．secret | D．opinion |
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| 小题16: | | A．worried | B．thought | C．heard | D．wrote |
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| 小题17: | | A．impression | B．improvement | C．imagination | D．strength |
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| 小题18: | | A．actions | B．wisdom | C．words | D．duty |
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| 小题19: | | A．care | B．predict | C．ignore | D．learn |
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| 小题20: | | A．proved | B．said | C．promised | D．answered |
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