I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.” After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student. After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”
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小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:C
作者通过自己的努力向别人证明自己很成功！
小题1:C 上下文串联。根据上文我在学校表现很差可知校长认为我没有用处。
小题2:D 词义辨析。Anything成功的人或事。这里是指校长认为我永远都不会成功。
小题3:B 语法分析。本句考察的是强调句型。强调主语the best thing。
小题4:C 动词辨析。A思考；B允诺；C决定；D期待；根据句意可知我决定要做一些积极的事情。
小题5:A 固定词组。Prove to sb向某人证明。这里可知是我想向别人证明他们的说法是错的。
小题6:D 形容词辨析。解析同上。
小题7:B 动词辨析。A看见；B直面；C对待，治疗；D反应；这里是指我们直面这一切。
小题8:A 上下文串联。根据下文的novel可知是指写作。
小题9:B 上下文串联。根据下文的a college student可知是指上大学。
小题10:C 短语辨析。A穿过，横过；B放在一边；C出版；D引爆，使发生；这里是指我的小说出版。
小题11:D 上下文串联。上文提及白天教学，晚上参加夜校。
小题12:A 动词辨析。A收到；B接受；C给；D提供。这里是指我得到了学位。
小题13:A 短语辨析。A放弃；B付钱买…；C报名；D清除；结合上下文可知我要放弃工作专职写作。
小题14:C 动词辨析。这里是指利兹大学给我提供了一份全职工作。
小题15:D 词组辨析。Leave school毕业。这里是指我为自己感到自豪，很早就中学毕业，现在却在大学教书。
小题16:B 短语辨析。A匆匆逃走；B事业成功；C发出；D离开。这里是指我的事业成功了。
小题17:A 上下文串联。这里是指我我发现了自己的写作风格。
小题18:B 上下文串联。上文提及我已经很有名誉了，但是这又意味着什么呢？
小题19:D 固定词组。Put down看不起，轻视；结合上下文可知D正确。是指过去看不起我的人。
小题20:上下文串联。与文字开头相对应，开头是别人说我是失败的人，这里希望别人承认我的成功。