Directions：

　　Read the following text. Choose the best word （s） for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. （10 points）

　　Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The 1 image of a writer, for instance, is 2 a slightly easy-looking person, locked in an attic, writing 3 furiously for days 4 . Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, 5 which he could not produce a readable word.

　　Nowadays, we know that such images 6 little resemblance to reality. But are they 7 false？ In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not Dame Muriel Spark, who 8 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical sitter. She is certainly not crazy, and she doesn't work in an attic. But she is rather 9 about the tools of her 10.

　　She 11 writing with a certain type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain 12 in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so 13 is she that, if someone uses one of her pens 14 , she immediately throws it away. And she claims she would have enormous difficulty writing in any notebook 15 those sold by James Thin. This could soon be a problem, as the shop no longer 16 them, and Dame Muriel 's 17 of 72-page spiral bound is nearly finished.

　　As well as her18about writing materials, Muriel Spark 19 one other characteristic with the stereotypical writer ： her work is the most important thing in her life. It has stopped her from marrying； 20_ her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.

　　1. [A] historic　 [B] antique 　 [C]senior 　 　[D]classic

　　2. [A] in　　　　 [B]of 　　　 [C]with 　 　 [D]for

　　3. [A]away　　　 [B]off [C]on [D]down

　　4. [A] on finish [B]on final [C] on end [D] on stop

　　5. [A] except [B]without [C]beyond [D] on

　　6. [A] bear [B]stand [C]hold [D] keep

　　7. [A] extremely　　 [B] thoroughly 　　 [C]likely 　 　[D] com??pletely

　　8. [A]observed 　　 [B] entered 　　　　[C] saw 　　 [D] turned

　　9. [A] particular　　 [B] specific　　　 [C] peculiar　　 [D] special

　　10. [A]business 　　[B]trade 　　　 　[C]vocation　　 [D] career

　　11. [A]persists in [B] insists on [C] keeps on [D] indulges in

　　12. [A]grocer [B]chemist [C] stationer [D] baker

　　13. [A]mysterious [B] conventional [C]superstitious [D] traditional

　　14. [A] by fortune [B] by accident [C] on purpose [D] by coincidence

　　15. [A]much as [B] rather than [C] such as [D] other than

　　16. [A] piles [B] stores [C] stocks [D] conceals

　　17. [A] supply [B] provision [C] supplement [D] addition

　　18. [A]devotion [B] preoccupation [C] worship [D] obsession

　　19. [A] shares [B] agrees [C] sides [D] possesses

　　20. [A]spent [B] cost [C] exhausted [D] tired