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人物传记篇
滚动组合训练(一)
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Ⅰ.完形填空。
Anthony Burgess was 40 when he learned he had only one year to live. He had a serious cancer that would 1 him within a year. He was completely a broken man at the time, 2 he had nothing to leave behind for his family. He knew he had to 3 with the illness.
Burgess had never been a professional 4 before, but he always knew the possibility inside him to be a storywriter. So he began writing. He wasn’t sure whether his stories would 5 out, but he couldn’t think of anything else to do.
“According to the doctor,” he said, “I had a winter, spring and summer to live through, and would 6 with the falling leaves.”
Later, Burgess wrote five and a half novels before the end of the year. But Burgess didn’t die. His 7 had left him completely. He lived a 8 and full life. He was told he had only one year to live but he lived for more than 30 years. He wrote over 70 books, but if he hadn’t gotten the 9 ,he may not have written at all.[
Many of us are like Anthony Burgess, keeping greatness inside and waiting for some 10 or dangerous situation to bring it out. Ask yourself what you’d do if you had Anthony Burgess’ worry.
( )1.A.leave B.kill
C.knock D.follow
( )2.A.but B.because
C.so D.though
( )3.A.agree B.talk
C.discuss D.fight
( )4.A.writer B.artist
C.scientist D.designer
( )5.A.break B.work
C.find D.come
( )6.A.laugh B.play
C.die D.start
( )7.A.illness B.friend
C.luck D.feeling
( )8.A.lonely B.long
C.happy D .hard
( )9.A.cancer B.accident
C.prize D.money[
( )10.A.famous B.personal
C.pleasant D.serious
Ⅱ.阅读理解。
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Xu Yi,a ten yearold boy from Chongqing,is talented.He has published(出版)at least 100,000 words of literary works including