Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ____, writing stories was simply a ____ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. ____, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long ____ and paid Tracy a $ 15,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for ____ writer.”
____ Tracy’s characters are interesting, her stories sometimes ____ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could ____ the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I ? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have ____ when things come to me ____. “Once, she was wondering how to complete a ____ set in ancient China. ____ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ____. It came without her having ____ it.
Though she has published 45 books, Tracy has remained ____ by her fame. She lives in the same ____ she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for ____ in her life — and it wasn’t just ____.
| 小题1: | | A．skill | B．experience | C．practice | D．method |
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| 小题2: | | A．duty | B．effort | C．job | D．task |
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| 小题3: | | A．Instead | B．Normally | C．Certainly | D．Then |
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| 小题4: | | A．general | B．deep | C．personal | D．lively |
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| 小题5: | | A．Interested | B．Anxiously | C．Seriously | D．Encouraged |
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| 小题6: | | A．film | B．story | C．program | D．article |
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| 小题7: | | A．a foreign | B．a popular | C．an unusual | D．an unknown |
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| 小题8: | | A．Now that | B．Even though | C．Just because | D．Except that |
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| 小题9: | | A．find | B．turn | C．leave | D．hold |
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| 小题10: | | A．make up | B．connect with | C．control | D．explain |
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| 小题11: | | A．events | B．chances | C．feelings | D．moments |
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| 小题12: | | A．for no reason | B．from a distance | C．by accident | D．as gifts |
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| 小题13: | | A．description | B．condition | C．scene | D．talk |
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| 小题14: | | A．Surprisingly | B．Suddenly | C．Expectedly | D．Fortunately |
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| 小题15: | | A．cooking | B．history | C．play | D．medicine |
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| 小题16: | | A．known | B．sent | C．realized | D．ordered |
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| 小题17: | | A．unchanged | B．excited | C．determined | D．unmoved |
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| 小题19: | | A．success | B．work | C．joy | D．variety |
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| 小题20: | | A．writing | B．reporting | C．luck | D．fun |
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