英语每日一练
Directions: In this section there is one incomplete which has four blanks and four choices A, B, C and D, taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
A. And fooled the boys for a while.
B. And I don’t think the boys have minded.
C. Well, it’s because my British publisher.
D. All this time I thought you were ‘J.K’.
Winfrey: So, this is the first time we’ve met.
Rowling: Yes, it is .
Winfrey: And my producers tell me that your real name is J.O. 1
Rowling: (laughing) Yeah.
Winfrey: J.K is …
Rowling: 2 When the first book came out, they thought ‘this is a book that will appeal to boys ’, but they didn’t want the boys to know a woman had written it. So they said to me ‘could we use your initials ’and I said ‘fine’. I only have one initial. I don’t have a middle name. So I took my favorite grandmother’s name, Kathleen.
Winfrey: 3
Rowling: Yeah, but not for too long, because I started getting my picture in the press and no one could pretend I was a man anymore.
Winfrey: 4
Rowling: NO —it hasn’t held me back, has it?
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正确答案
1.【答案】D
【解析】根据空格前所述了关于罗林的名字,温弗里对此提出了自己的疑惑,因此选D。
2.【答案】C
【解析】根据空格后所述罗林的由来可知,J.K.是应出版商的要求而取的,因此选C。
3.【答案】A
【解析】根据上文所述,因为书的内容更吸引男性。出版商为了吸引读者,要求罗林用名字的首字母,从而暂时性地欺骗了读者,因此选A。
4.【答案】B
【解析】根据空格前所述:作者的照片已刊登,读者就知道了作者是一位女性,因此选B。