二、完形填空（10分）
When I was young, my family was poor. So our weekends were filled with simple things we could do for
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, like picnics, bike rides, and my favourite—trips to the library.
Thanks to the library's children's section(区), I fell in love with
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. I had my parents read the books we borrowed over and over until we needed to
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them.
When I was about five years old and started to read on my own, I had a curious thought: I knew we could get books from the library or buy them in shops if we had the money, but
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did stories come from? I asked my mother this question, and she said that the stories were made up by writers. These people wrote down the stories so they could be
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with others.
Many years later, I still remembered that moment. It was like I'd been struck (击中) by lightning (闪电). I knew my dream in this world. I would be one of those
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. I began by making up stories about animals, telling them to my grandmother
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I didn't have the writing skills to write them down
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. I filled notebooks with words when I grew a little older. I started to learn some of the writing
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at school, such as grammar and basic story structures (结构). I finished my homework
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each day so I could write for the rest of the evening. In this way, I completed my first story by fourteen.
(
B
) 1. A. change B. free C. love D. help
(
C
) 2. A. games B. pictures C. stories D. music
(
A
) 3. A. return B. buy C. record D. keep
(
D
) 4. A. when B. how C. what D. where
(
A
) 5. A. shared B. changed C. bought D. dreamed
(
C
) 6. A. students B. riders C. writers D. shopkeepers
(
B
) 7. A. if B. because C. but D. so
(
A
) 8. A. myself B. herself C. themselves D. ourselves
(
B
) 9. A. materials B. skills C. styles D. words
(
D
)10. A. correctly B. carefully C. patiently D. quickly
