题目内容：

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s   1filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so   2that I decided to write an article about her.

I   3Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She   4and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I   5I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there   6, taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that   7Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The   8was almost unbearable. I struggled for days   9draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript   10. How stupid of me! I thought. How could I   11in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   12the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While   13my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   14:

七彩教育网 Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some   15materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to   16your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to   17. Fear of rejection cost me 七彩教育网ly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of   18writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this   19, I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   20to doubt yourself.

1.A．joy              B．voice          C．speech         D．smile

2.A．proud            B．active         C．satisfied      D．moved

3.A．visited          B．emailed        C．phoned         D．interviewed

4.A．agreed           B．refused        C．hesitated      D．paused

5.A．replied          B．discovered     C．explained      D．knew

6.A．seriously        B．patiently      C．nervously      D．quietly

7.A．blaming          B．fooling        C．inviting       D．urging

8.A．hardship         B．failure        C．comment        D．pressure

9.A．with             B．by             C．on             D．in

10.A．disappeared     B．returned       C．spread         D．improved

11.A．compare         B．struggle       C．survive        D．compete

12.A．ignore          B．deliver        C．face           D．receive

13.A．decorating      B．repairing      C．cleaning       D．leaving

14.A．disbelief       B．anxiety        C．horror         D．trouble

15.A．subjective      B．relevant       C．private        D．reliable

16.A．broadcast       B．create         C．publish        D．assess

17.A．recover         B．prepare        C．escape         D．concentrate

18.A．energetic       B．endless        C．typical        D．enjoyable

19.A．experience      B．success        C．benefit        D．accident

20.A．attempt         B．afford         C．expect         D．pretend