第二节：完形填空 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  36  and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be  37  but a failure.” After five years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beatific  38   that could have happened to me. I  39  I wanted to do something positive （积极地） with my life because I wanted to prove to  40  that what people said about me was  41_ . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s  42  it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my  writting and went to college. My first novel  43   while I was at college. After college I taught during the  44  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University,

where I got a  45  in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of  46  that job to write full time when I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself — here was a working-class boy who’d  47  school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career （职业） took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and  48 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.  49  what does it mean? I  50  wish all the people that have put me down had said: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36．A．bright                   B．useless                       C．simple              D．hopeful

37．A．anything                B．something                C．everything               D．nothing

38．A．support            B．happiness         C．surprise                   D．thing

39．A．admitted                 B．decided                   C．planned                   D．told

40．A．me                     B．them                     C．her                       D．it

41．A．wrong                 B．right                     C．stupid              D．faulty

42．A．see                      B．know               C．understand          D．face

43．A．came on                 B．came in                   C．came out                  D．came back

44．A．day                    B．night                     C．month              D．year

45．A．graduation          B．pass                      C．degree                    D．success

46．A．giving in           B．giving back             C．giving out            D．giving up

47．A．left                    B．attended             C．changed             D．graduated

48．A．tired                   B．calm               C．nervous                  D．famous

49．A．And                     B．But                      C．However                 D．Well

50．A．just                     B．exactly             C．so                 D．very