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After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce，Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and __18__.She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and __19__ to finish the book before looking for a teaching job.Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their __20__，cold apartment，she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep.In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.
Notes：
①measle n.麻疹 ②bilingual adj.双语的
【语篇解读】 Harry Potter是受全世界书迷喜欢的系列小说，可很少有人知道此书的作者J.K.Rowling的命运就像书中人物哈利·波特一样具有传奇色彩。
1.A.read B.recited C.wrote D.copied
答案 C [作为一个作家，应该是“写”或“创作”小说。]
2.A.on B.in C.around D.at
答案 D [写作时应该是“坐在桌子前”，用at a table。]
3.A.what B.that C.which D.who
答案 B [本句采用了强调句型，强调的是主语Harry Potter。]
4.A.remembers B.thinks
C.reminds D.supposes
答案 A [此处是Rowling对往事的回忆，所以应该选 remembers。]
5.A.book B.story C.novel D.fiction
答案 B [下文“was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit”暗示了答案。novel 指一般的小说;fiction多指科幻方面的小说。]
6.A.colored B.published C.called D.replaced
答案 C [语境为“关于一只名叫Rabbit的兔子的故事”。]
7.A.songs B.sports C.things D.memories
答案 D [此段主要讲述的是Rowling对往事的回忆，这里的意思为“她的许多美好回忆集中在读书上”。]
8.A.spoken B.said C.told D.read
答案 D [read aloud意思为“大声朗读”;虽然tell可以表示“讲故事”，但它不与aloud搭配。]
9.A.cost B.spared C.took D.spent
答案 D [spend time(in)doing sth为固定结构。]
10.A.regard B.consider C.work D.treat
答案 C [虽然四个动词都与as搭配，但此处表示“当研究员和秘书”，所以用work as。]
11.A.searching B.reading C.listening D.typing
答案 D [此处表示在上班期间搞业余创作，应该是在电脑上把构思的小说“打出来”。]
12.A.noticing B.watching C.observing D.seeing
答案 B [语境为“当没有观察时，她就在电脑上打字”。watch表示“观看，观察，监视”，符合语境;notice表示“无意中注意到”;observe多表示“搞专门研究的人长期地进行某一方面的观察”;see表示“有意或无意中看到”。]
13.A.came to B.struck to C.stuck to D.hit on
答案 A [表示“某人产生一个主意”常用an idea comes to sb，an idea strikes sb或sb hits on/upon an idea。]
14.A.studies B.attends C.builds D.goes
答案 B [与上学有关的短语为study at/in a school，attend a school，enter a school和go to school。]
15.A.entered B.pulled C.reached D.arrived
答案 B [火车进站、出站常用动词“pull into”和“pull out of”。另外，这两个短语还可表示轮船进出码头。]
16.A.organized B.taken C.formed D.appeared
答案 C [此处表示故事中的人物和前边的部分已经在她大脑中“形成”。]
17.A.theatres B.pubs C.cinemas D.concerts
答案 B [由“over her lunch hours”可知，此处应选pubs(酒吧)。]
18.A.chapters B.books C.magazines D.newspapers
答案 A [从上文的“notes”一词和下文的“to finish the book”可知，此处表示那本书的“章节”。]
19.A.set about B.set off C.set up D.set out
答案 D [此处表示定居下来以后着手完成她的'书。表示“着手干某事”常用set out to do sth和set about doing sth两个短语，由后边的不定式结构推断出选D。set off表示“动身，出发”;set up意为“建立”。]
20.A.splendid B.large C.comfortable D.tiny
答案 D [此处意为“离开她们狭小而又寒冷的公寓……”。]
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