[填空题]Did you know that for every 20,000 novels written, only one gets published So the (46)____ (likely) that I’ll never fulfill my ambition of becoming a professional mystery writer doesn’t seem very high. But the prospect of turning my lifelong passion into my livelihood and achieving fame and (47) for____ at the same time is just too exciting for me to be put off by dull statistics. So what does it (48)t____ to become a writer Reading is important—all writers need to research their genre thoroughly to familiarize themselves (49)____ its codes and conventions. My bookshelves at home are stacked with the novels of all the great mystery writers, which I’ve read and in cases, re-read, despite (50)____(know) all the time “who’d done it”. Of course, being a writer requires imagination. You have to develop your own personal style rather than simply copy the work of “the greats”. I’ve turned out (51)d____ of short crime stories for my university student magazine—some have been published, som

[填空题]Did you know that for every 20,000 novels written, only one gets published So the (46)____ (likely) that I’ll never fulfill my ambition of becoming a professional mystery writer doesn’t seem very high. But the prospect of turning my lifelong passion into my livelihood and achieving fame and (47) for____ at the same time is just too exciting for me to be put off by dull statistics. So what does it (48)t____ to become a writer Reading is important—all writers need to research their genre thoroughly to familiarize themselves (49)____ its codes and conventions. My bookshelves at home are stacked with the novels of all the great mystery writers, which I’ve read and in cases, re-read, despite (50)____(know) all the time “who’d done it”. Of course, being a writer requires imagination. You have to develop your own personal style rather than simply copy the work of “the greats”. I’ve turned out (51)d____ of short crime stories for my university student magazine—some have been published, som

[单项选择]Rainforests Did you know there are two types of Rainforest—the temperate and the tropical Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator. Temperate rainforests are found along coasts in the temperate zone, such as the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Both are endangered! Rainforests Endangered! Today only about three percent of the original temperate rainforest in the U. S. A. remains, mostly inside Olympic National Park in Washington State. Prior to the arrival of homesteaders just over a century ago, the Olympic Peninsula contained more than a million acres of old-growth spruce and hemlock. Because of habitat destruction, many plants and animals have become "island dwellers" inside the park now. Tropical rainforests comprise only 40% of the world’’s tropical forests and only 20% of the world’’s total forests. They cover 6%—7% of the Earth’’s land surface. Half of the world’’s plant and animal species live in the tropical rainforests of the world. Thirty acres of tr
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