一、阅读短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式,有提示词的空格不限一词,无提示词的空格限一词
$Since I was a little girl, I’ve loved crime and detective novels. I guess it was normal that I started writing them when I was (^1)$
older
(old). However, my family were very big on (热衷于$……) having a (^2)$
traditional
(tradition) career and so when I said I wanted to study writing, my parents didn’t agree. They told me I had to study for a degree so that I would achieve a career, not something as risky as writing. I suppose I could have studied journalism (新闻$), but I didn’t want to lose interest in writing. I thought that (^3)$
teaching
(teach) looked like a good compromise (妥协$), especially because (^4)$
of
$ the long holidays. It was a good choice: by the time I was 25, I’d finished two novels and had (^5)$
an
agent (经纪人$). To be honest, I never meant to keep my being a crime writer a secret, and my friends have always (^6)$
known
$ (know). One of the (^7)$
reasons
$ (reason) most people don’t know is because my agent told me that my name Hazel sounded like a romance novelist for 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 (^8)$
reading
$ (read) 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 (^9)$
offered
$ (offer) to lend it to me after she finished! Of course, sometimes I wonder what my students would think if they knew that their teacher was going home at the weekend to write about murders and dead bodies. (^1⁰)$
But
I think my parents are probably right in some ways: my job as a teacher keeps me in touch with the real world.