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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved reading crime and detective (偵探) novels, so I guess it was pretty normal that I started writing them when I was older. However, my family is very big on having a traditional career  (職業)  and so when I said that I wanted to go to college and study writing, my parents told me that I couldn’t. They told me that I had to study for a degree so that I would achieve a career, and not something as risky as writing. I suppose I could have studied joumalism (新聞) ,but I didn’t want to lose interest in writing because it would be something I would do every day for work, not for pleasure. I thought that teaching looked like a pretty good compromise (妥協 ) , especially because of the long holidays. It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five，I’d already finished two novels and had an be honest, I never meant to keep my being a crime writer a secret or anything, and my friends have always known. One of the reasons most people don’t know is because my agent told me that my name Hazel sounded too much like a romance  (浪漫)  novelist for older women. She suggested Brooke Lane and I thought, “Well, if you think it’ll make me successful, okay,” I’d totally forgotten about it until I walked into school one day and saw one of my workmates reading my novel. I asked her some questions about it, and it was so clear that she had no idea that I’d written it - she even offered to lend it to me after she’d finished!  Of course, sometimes I wonder what my students would think if they knew that their teacher was going home on the weekend to write about murders and dead bodies, but I think my parents probably did me a favor: my teaching job keeps me in touch with the real world.

41. Hazel is probably               ．

A. an agent                                   B. a journalist

C. a teacher and artist                       D. a teacher and writer

42. The underlined words “is very big on ” in the passage most probably mean         .

A. to give no advice                          B. to like something very much

C. to have more experiences                   D. to misunderstand something

43. It’s clear that Hazel             .

A. agreed to study journalism for a degree

B. accepted Brooke Lane as her pen name

C. would like to write something for teaching

D. told her workmates about her writing novels

44. Hazel finally realized that her parents’ advice on her career was              .

A. helpful             B. exciting            C. disappointing       D. risky

45. We can infer from the passage that              .

A. Hazel likes showing off in public

B. Hazel’s students all want to write novels

C. Hazel’s agent has played a role in her success

D. older women prefer the name Brooke to Hazel

【回答】

41. D    42. B    43. B    44. A    45. C

【解析】

本片文章難度適中，主要講述我小的時候勵志成為一名作家，但是父母讓我從事傳統的行業。後來我成為了一名教師，在空閒時間寫小說。後來在經紀人的建議下，我改了名字，人們都不知道這個小說是我寫的。但是後來作者感謝父母對他的幫助，教師的工作能讓他接觸現實世界。

41.細節理解題。根據I thought that teaching looked like a pretty good compromise (妥協 ) , especially because of the long holidays以及One of the reasons most people don’t know is because my agent told me that my name Hazel sounded too much like a romance  (浪漫)  novelist for older women可知，我即是一名教師又是一個作家，故選D。

42.義猜測題。根據Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved reading crime and detective (偵探) novels, so I guess it was pretty normal that I started writing them when I was older. However, my family is very big on having a traditional career  (職業)  and so when I said that I wanted to go to college and study writing, my parents told me that I couldn’t可知，我小的時候喜歡看犯罪和偵探小說，我長大後想當作家，但是我的家人想讓我從事傳統的職業，所以當我告訴他們我的志向時，他們不同意我這麼做。所以is very big on譯為“非常喜歡某事”，故選B。

43.細節理解題。根據I suppose I could have studied joumalism (新聞) ,but I didn’t want to lose interest in writing because it would be something I would do every day for work, not for pleasure可知，她認為學習新聞學後，她每天都要工作，沒有樂趣，所以她不想學新聞，排除A；根據Of course, sometimes I wonder what my students would think if they knew that their teacher was going home on the weekend to write about murders and dead bodies可知，她寫的是謀殺和屍體，所以可推斷出她不想寫與教學有關的內容，排除C；根據I’d totally forgotten about it until I walked into school one day and saw one of my workmates reading my novel. I asked her some questions about it, and it was so clear that she had no idea that I’d written it - she even offered to lend it to me after she’d finished可知，我的同事提出來，當她讀完這本小說後，要將這本書借給我看，所以推斷出她沒有告訴她的同事他寫小說，排除D；根據She suggested Brooke Lane and I thought, “Well, if you think it’ll make me successful, okay,”可知，她接受了布魯克萊恩這個筆名，故選B。

44.細節理解題。根據but I think my parents probably did me a favor: my teaching job keeps me in touch with the real world可知，她認為她的父母幫了他一個忙，所以她的父母對她的職業生涯有幫助，故選A。

45.細節理解題。根據She suggested Brooke Lane and I thought, “Well, if you think it’ll make me successful, okay,”以及全文可知，我的經紀人讓我改名字，後來我獲得了很大的成功，所以她的經紀人在她的成功的事業上起著重大的作用。故選C。

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