第二节：完形填空 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出选项。
I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was 36 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be 37 but a failure.” After five years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beatific 38 that could have happened to me. I 39 I wanted to do something positive （积极地） with my life because I wanted to prove to 40 that what people said about me was 41_ . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s 42 it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my writting and went to college. My first novel 43 while I was at college. After college I taught during the 44 in high schools and attended evening classes at London University,
where I got a 45 in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of 46 that job to write full time when I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself — here was a working-class boy who’d 47 school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career （职业） took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and 48 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. 49 what does it mean? I 50 wish all the people that have put me down had said: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
36．A．bright B．useless C．simple D．hopeful
37．A．anything B．something C．everything D．nothing
38．A．support B．happiness C．surprise D．thing
39．A．admitted B．decided C．planned D．told
40．A．me B．them C．her D．it
41．A．wrong B．right C．stupid D．faulty
42．A．see B．know C．understand D．face
43．A．came on B．came in C．came out D．came back
44．A．day B．night C．month D．year
45．A．graduation B．pass C．degree D．success
46．A．giving in B．giving back C．giving out D．giving up
47．A．left B．attended C．changed D．graduated
48．A．tired B．calm C．nervous D．famous
49．A．And B．But C．However D．Well
50．A．just B．exactly C．so D．very