I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.” After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student. After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.” 小题1: A．naughty B．lazy C．useless D．raggy 小题2:A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything 小题3: A．when B．that C．which D．as 小题4: A．thought B．promised C．decided D．expected 小题5: A．to B．for C．with D．at 小题6: A．ridiculous B．acceptable C．believable D．wrong 小题7: A．see B．face C．treat D．react 小题8: A．writing B．experiment C．practice D．composition 小题9: A．school B．college C．club D．company 小题10: A．went across B．put aside C．came out D．set off 小题11: A．lecture B．writing C．teaching D．evening 小题12: A．received B．accepted C．gave D．offered 小题13: A．giving up B．paying for C．signing up D．ridding of 小题14: A．paid B．made C．offered D．tried 小题15: A．finished B．gone C．delayed D．left 小题16: A．made off B．took off C．gave off D．moved off 小题17: A．style B．habit C．idea D．skill 小题18: A．Therefore B．But C．Though D．For 小题19: A．written B．turned C．torn D．put 小题20: A．cheerful B．enjoyable C．successful D．forgettable