I guess we've already talked about this before but I'll ask you again just
________.(2010·浙江)
A．by nature B．in return C．in case D．by chance
Tracy Wong is a wellknown ChineseAmerican writer.But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself.After her first ____， teaching disabled children, she became a parttime writer for IBM.____， writing stories was simply a ____ interest.Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher.____， they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long ____ and paid Tracy a $50,000 advance.“A pretty money，” said the publisher, “for ____ writer.”
___ Tracy's characters are interesting, her stories sometimes ____ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural.“My mother believed I could ____ the afterlife world，”she told a close friend.“She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I? I don't think I can，” Tracy said with a laugh.“But I do have ____ when things come to me ____.” Once, she was wondering how to complete a ____ set in ancient China, ____ the doorbell rang.It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ____.It came without her having ____ it.
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained ____ by her fame.She lives in the same ___ she lived 27 years ago—although in a more comfortable home.There's more room for ____ in her life—and it wasn't just ____.
1.A.skill B．experience
C．practice D．method
2.A.duty B．effort C．job D．task
3.A.Instead B．Normally C．Certainly D．Then
4.A.general B．deep C．personal D．lively
5.A.Interested B．Anxiously
C．Seriously D．Encouraged
6.A.film B．story C．program D．article
7.A.a foreign B．a popular
C．an unusual D．an unknown
8.A.Now that B．Even though
C．Just because D．Except that
9.A.find B．turn C．leave D．hold
10.A.make up B．connect with
C．control D．explain
11.A.events B．chances
C．feelings D．moments
12.A.for no reason B．from a distance
C．by accident D．as gifts
13.A.description B．pointingC．scene D．talk
14.A.surprisingly B．suddenly
C．expectedly D．fortunately
15.A.cooking B．history
C．play D．medicine
16.A.known B．sent C．realized D．ordered
17.A.unchanged B．excited
C．determined D．unmoved
18.A.life B．city C．house D．way
19.A.success B．work C．joy D．variety
20.A.writing B．reporting C．luck D．fun
．Life is too short to waste and too ________ to give up.
A．expensive B．fragile
C．precious D．ordinary
The law required that everyone ________ his car checked at least once a year.
A．has B．have C．had D．will have
．Our teacher is very busy.He is ________ in working out a teaching plan.
A．involve B．involving
C．involved D．to involve
Beijing Man used fire for cooking food and also for light, warmth and ________
wild beasts.
A．protected from B．protection from
C．protecting from D．to protect from
