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【英语卷（解析）·2015届四川省成都市高中毕业班第一次诊断性检测（201412）WORD版】第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意每题词数要求）。
My name is Maria. I left university with a good degree in English Literature，but no
sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years，I was trying to earn an income. I
tried journalism，but I didn't think I was any good，then finance，which I hated. Finally，I
got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher.
When I had enough savings to take a year off work，I decided to try to satisfy a deep-
down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure
（构思）of writing my first 55，000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start一there’s a dark period in-between where
you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do，
and you’re too ashamed to say，“Well，I’m writing a novel，but I’m not quite sure if I’m
