Unit 1 Looking forwards

Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas

基础训练

单词拼写 根据首字母或汉语提示，用本部分所学单词的正确形式填空。

1.I guess many people have read Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic d novels.

2.Life can only be understood b ， but it must be lived forwards.

3.He is a c who has reported news for a local newspaper for five years.

4.Since then， he has continued to help young people to achieve their sporting a .

5.Rick has finally achieved his （少年时代） dream by working hard.

6.It helps to understand the （历史的） context in which the author wrote.

7.The helicopters appeared as two black （小圆点） on the horizon.

8.Whatever the scientists （最终） conclude， all of their data will immediately be doubted.

选择填空 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。

get enough of in place take action come one’s way take a leaf out of one’s book

1. No matter what difficulties ， he never gave up his hope.

2. I collected all the books and newspapers in the room， and then put them .

3. Firefighters immediately to stop the blaze spreading yesterday.

4. I will to see how he learned to become a native-like English speaker.

5. Luke visited a school， where the kids couldn’t the snacks.

课文语法填空

As many of us already know， having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become 1 （real）.

The American author， Ernest Hemingway， born in 1899， was from early boyhood single-minded in his ambition to write. Having set 2 （he） this goal， he wrote novels and short stories based on his personal 3 （experience）. His novel The Old Man and the Sea 4 （win） the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. He would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

5 contrast， the young Arthur Conan Doyle， born in Scotland in 1859， had originally worked as 6 doctor. But Doyle’s main ambition was 7 （become） a writer of historical novels. Although some of his historical novels were published， their success was nothing 8 （compare） to the stories of his fictional detective， Sherlock Holmes， 9 he is still best known for to this day.

Though both of these men were 10 （ultimate） successful， their paths to success were very different， their futures not necessarily turning out exactly as they planned.

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能力提升

阅读理解

I left university with a good degree in English Literature， but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six year， I was treading water， just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism， but I didn’t think I was any good， then finance， which I hated. Finally， I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books， although the job that I did was dull.

I had enough savings to take a year off work， and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55，000 words.

It takes confidence to make a new start—there’s a dark period in-between when you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do， and you’re too ashamed to say， “Well， I’m writing a novel， but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence died. Believing my novel could not be published， I put it aside.

Then I met an agent who said I should send my novel off to agents. So， I did and， to my surprise， got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and， after signing with an agent， I finished the second half of the novel.

The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income， just waiting and wondering， a publisher offered me a book deal—that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.

It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck—of fate， really. When you set out to do something different， there’s no end in sight， so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract （合同） of the publisher—to be a published writer—is unbelievably rewarding.

1. What can be inferred about the author from Paragraph 1？

A. He waited for good fortune.              B. He did several jobs at a time.

C. He sought to find an admirable job.        D. He was aimless about a suitable job.

2. Why did the author begin to write a novel？

A. To earn more money.        B. To realize his dream.

C. To meet readers’ needs.      D. To finish the writing course.

3. How did the author feel halfway with the novel？

A. Unsure.          B. Ashamed.          C. Confident.      D. Embarrassed.

4. What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph？

A. Good luck makes a difference. B. Hard work can lead to success.

C. The early bird catches the worm. D. It pays to stick to one’s dream.

阅读七选五

Psychologists have long believed that human beings have a fairly consistent “negativity bias （偏见）” that leads us to pay more attention to negative thoughts， feelings and events than to positive ones. 1 There is a positive explanation for the question. After all， we are motivated to grow after a misstep. However， we can’t abandon （放纵） ourselves to the negativity bias forever. How？ 2