12月英语四级选词填空实例训练（十七）

　　2013年下半年，英语四级将改革，局部题型发生变化。选词填空在英语四级考试中，是考生们很难逾越的难关，很多考生做到这类题型都会选择直接放弃。其实，只要大量练习，再加上归纳总结，选词填空拿高分并不难。下面小编整理了选词填空题型训练，希望对考生们有帮助。

　　Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people,but I also explain that theresa 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. Youve 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, 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 didnt 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 hadnt 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 wasnt 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