2015年12月大学英语四级选词填空练习和答案解析.docVIP

2015年12月大学英语四级选词填空练习与答案解析 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. You’ve got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer.The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter（自由撰稿人）, I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there. A) barely B) genuine C) rewarded D) doubt E) lonely F) poverty G) persuade H) prospects I) uncertainty J)impossibly K) encourage L)awarded M) alone N)wealth O)cold 【答案】 1.选K）。 此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encourage，但由always推知，作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，而不是怀疑也不是说服，故排除doubt和persuade而选encourage. 2.选N）。由空格后的fame可知，此处应填名词。可选项有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of 与第二段中The reality is…poor-paying可推知，那些想当作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排除prospects而选wealth. 3.选E）。此处应填形容词，private，poor-paying一起修饰affair.选项中有lonely和alone，能修饰affair的只有lonely，alone表示“孤独的”时，通常作表语，故排除alone而选lonely. 4.选C）。此处应填动词的被动形式。可选项有rewarded和awarded，前者可表示“（为所希望的举动得到的）回报”，后者作动词时表示“颁发，授予”，故只有rewarded符合题意而排除awarded. 5.选H）。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队20年工作