成人高考考试

【单选题】Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’’s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hour alone at a typewriter. "You’’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer".The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewardeD、When I left a 20-year career in the U.S.Coast Guard to become a freelance(自由栏目 )writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn’’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat.But I knew I wanted to write, I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’’t going to be one of those people who die wondering: What if I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. The passage is meant to______.
A、warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience

B、advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer
C．show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame
D．encourage young people to pursue a writing career

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
这道题考察考生对文章的整体把握能力。作者在开头便点明写作和成为作家是不同的，指出 很多年轻人的想法是不成熟的。接下来又以亲身经历说明成为作家的艰辛。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>