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Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers, I had, without telling anyone, tried to  36  my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a tiresome  37  from one end of the city to another and to  38  among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the  39 , so the friendship I knew at school was  40 . I put up with it for a short period. It was  41  long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to put my  42  into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued writing poetry at home.
By chance, I  43  some prizes and awards for literature. A young woman from a  44  company came to the college one day. She told me that I won a national poetry award. I  45  at her in astonishment and disbelief. She wanted to make a short  46  about me, to which I said, “ No, I couldn’t do that.” Not that I had any real  47 . I was just frightened. In the end she  48     me that I should do it the following day.
So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my  49  and I became  50  interested in literature than ever. I  51  what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not  52  myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to _ 53  to school. They were greatly surprised and a little afraid, but they did not try to persuade me not to. They wanted to know if I was  54 , and if I knew what it meant and  55   I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very difficult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter no further.
36．A．stop                 B．go on                  C．continue        D．walk
37．A．talk                    B．journey               C．job              D．walk
38．A．do              B．sit             C．talk           D．work
39．A．family         B．class           C．city            D．country

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40．A．absent           B．missed          C．lost            D．over

41．A．too             B．very           C．much          D．quite
42．A．mind         
B．heart           C．soul            D．thought
43．A．defeated        B．beat            C．won               D．hit
44．A．TV            B．radio            C．shoe            D．food
45．A．looked           B．fixed           C．shouted         D．stared
46．A．talk          
B．film             C．conversation     D．speech
47．A．reason        
B．cause           C．excuse          D．wish
48．A．advised       
B．suggested        C．agreed        
D．persuaded
49．A．poems        
B．stories          C．speeches        D．plans
50．A．less          
B．much          C．far             D．more
51．A．wandered         B．considered      C．discussed        D．wondered
52．A．think         
B．consider         C．spend           D．imagine
53．A．drop           B．leave           C．return          D．go to
54．A．sure          
B．clear           C．curious         D．true
55．A．whether                       B．that                            C．how            D．what

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36—40CCBBA  41—45ABCAD  46—50BCDAD  51—55DDCAA

36．选C。从下文可知，我在夜校“继续”学文学。go on后面需接with后再接宾语。
37．选C。该句中it指“从城市的一头到另一头上夜校”这件事，所以选job。如果选B或D项，需表达为It was a tiresome journey/walk to go from...。
38．选B。因为是上夜校，所以我“坐”在成人中间。
39．选B。我是“班”里最小的学生。
40．选A。absent表示“不存在的；缺乏的”。因为夜校以成人为主，我与他们的年龄差距使得我上学时的那种友谊不存在了。
41．选A。此处用too表示我有些厌倦。
42．选B。put one’s heart into sth.意为“把整个身心放在某事上；用全部精力去做某事”。mind的使用结构为put one’s mind on sth.。
43．选C。此处用won表示“获奖”。
44．选A。根据下文“拍短片”可推断是电视公司。
45．选D。根据语境我在“全国获奖”“吃惊又不相信”可以推断，此处用表示“盯着；凝视”的s tared最佳。
46．选B。根据下一段开头可知，她想为我拍电视短片。
47．选C。既然拒绝，用表示“借口”的excuse比表示“理由”的reason更佳。
48．选D。从下文给我拍摄了短片判断，她“说服”了我。
49．选A。因为我的诗歌获奖，所以拍摄时我最可能是读着一首诗歌。
50．选D。此处表示比较，联系上下文，我肯定是对文学更感兴趣了。
51．选D。wonder表示“不知道；想知道”。
52．选D。imagine doing sth.表示“想象做某事”，myself作spending的逻辑主语。
53．选C。我想“返回”学校上学。
54．选A。父母怕我动摇，想知道我是否“确定”了。
55．选A。表示“是否”的whether引导从句，与前面的if从句并列。