2007年考研w88中文模拟试题及答案(一)

　　directions：

　　read the following text. choose the best word （s） for each numbered blank and mark a, b, c or d on answer sheet 1. （10 points）

　　many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. the 1 image of a writer, for instance, is 2 a slightly easy-looking person, locked in an attic, writing 3 furiously for days 4 . naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, 5 which he could not produce a readable word.

　　nowadays, we know that such images 6 little resemblance to reality. but are they 7 false？ in the case of at least one writer, it would seem not dame muriel spark, who 8 80 in february, in many ways resembles this stereotypical sitter. she is certainly not crazy, and she doesn't work in an attic. but she is rather 9 about the tools of her 10.

　　she 11 writing with a certain type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain 12 in edinburgh called james thin. in fact, so 13 is she that, if someone uses one of her pens 14 , she immediately throws it away. and she claims she would have enormous difficulty writing in any notebook 15 those sold by james thin. this could soon be a problem, as the shop no longer 16 them, and dame muriel 's 17 of 72-page spiral bound is nearly finished.

　　as well as her18about writing materials, muriel spark 19 one other characteristic with the stereotypical writer ： her work is the most important thing in her life. it has stopped her from marrying； 20_ her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from london to new york to rome. today she lives in the italian province of tuscany with a friend.