[单项选择]A. His stories were inspired by his travels.
B. His travels prevented him from writing.
C. He traveled in order to relax from the pressures of writing.
D. He traveled around to promote his books.

[填空题]He told me some (fun) （） stories about his journey.

[填空题]His stories written in her later years were not interesting because of his ______ of imagination. (poor)

[填空题]He told me some (fun) ______ stories about his journey.

[单项选择]His colleagues were envious（）his promotion.
A. by
B. of
C. with
D. to

[单项选择]The farmer encountered his fortune; his crops were destroyed by a storm.
A. befell
B. dwelt on
C. suffered
D. fell among

[单项选择]A. His marriages were broken due to his devotion to literature.
B. His experiences at his young age were unusual.
C. He had to sell stories to magazines to finish his college career.
D. He travelled around the country in support of his parents.

[填空题] In his book, the stories he selected concern systems that could have been

[单项选择]

All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply (21) to all of us (22) the covers of books -- but we must know how to avail ourselves (23) this treasure and how to get (24) from it. The most (25) people all over the world, are (26) who have never discovered how (27) it is to read good books.
I am very interested in people, in meeting them and (28) about them. Some of the most (29) people I’ve met existed only in a Writer’s imagination, then (30) the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words.
If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who (31) in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first (32) in history; how (33) everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes (34) the discoveries of sc
A. fun
B. funny
C. uninteresting
D. exhausting