[B] solution

　　[C] gradually

　　[D] transport

　　[E] elemental

　　[F] conflict

　　[G] continually

　　[H] mobile

　　[I] couples

　　[J] agricultural

　　[K] including

　　[L] compromise

　　[M] requires

　　[N] primary

　　[O] consisting

　　參考答案：

　　1. 選J

　　2. 選A

　　3. 選C

　　4. 選O

　　5. 選H

　　6. 選M

　　7. 選E

　　8. 選l

　　9. 選F

　　10. 選I

　　Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve 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 are thousands more whose longing is never __4__.

　　When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人), 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 didn't even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a __7__ writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a story that __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t 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

　　參考答案：

　　1. 選K

　　2. 選N

　　3. 選E

　　4. 選C

　　5. 選H

　　6. 選O

　　7. 選B

　　8. 選D

　　9. 選A

　　10. 選I

　　It’s never easy to admit you are in the wrong. Being human, we all need to know the art of apologizing. Look back with honesty and think how often you’ve judged roughly, said __1__ things, pushed yourself ahead at the expense of a friend. Then count the occasions when you indicated clearly and __2__ that you were sorry. A bit frightening, isn't it? Frightening because some deep wisdom in us knows that when even a small wrong has been committed, some mysterious moral feeling is __3__, and it stays out of balance until fault is acknowledged and __4__ is expressed. I remember a doctor friend, telling me about a man who came to him with a variety of signs:headaches, insomnia and stomach trouble. No __5__ cause could be found. Finally my friend said to the man, "Unless you tell me what’s worrying you, I can’t help you." After some hesitation, the man __6__ that, as executor of his faher’s will, he had been cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of his __7__. Then and there the wise old doctor made the man write to his brother asking __8__ and enclosing a cheque as the first stePin restoring their good relation. He then went with him to mail box in the corridor. As the letter disappeared, the man burst into tears. "Thank you," He said, "I think I’m __9__." And he was. A heartfelt apology can not only __10__ a damaged relationshiPbut also make it stronger. If you can think of someone who deserves an apology from you, someone you have wronged, or just neglected, do something about it right now.

　　[A] heal

　　[B] mental

　　[C] unkind

　　[D] regret

　　[E] accurately

　　[F] confessed

　　[G] inheritance

　　[H] physical

　　[I] cured

　　[J] treat

　　[K] truly

　　[L] unfaithful

　　[M] forgiveness

　　[N] disturbed

　　[O]excuse

　　參考答案：

　　1. 選C

　　2. 選K

　　3. 選N

　　4. 選D

　　5. 選H

　　6. 選F

　　7. 選G

　　8. 選M

　　9. 選I

　　10. 選A