Unit 3 Careers and skills Grammar and usage 课时练习 一、根据汉语意思填写单词 1.A recent study set out to investigate the effect of a seven-day kindness activity on changes in _____(主观的)happiness. 2.The bus drivers have to pass strict _____(资格)tests and complete safety driving training. 3.Then I caught sight of an old woman on a _____(秋千), watching the happenings in the yard. 4.Jim grew worried, especially when the _____(侦探)began questioning Peter, trying to get him to admit to having stolen the ring. 5.Serving as an important seaport and China's largest _____(商业的) and financial center, it draws the attention of the whole world and will certainly be an ideal place. 二、用所给单词的适当形式填空 6.This _____ (week) schedule may not solve all of your problems, but it will make you more aware of how you should spend your time. 7.On-campus jobs are great jobs and they teach you _____ (budget) your income and how to handle it wisely. 8.She's doing a course to _____ (sharp) her business and communication skills. 9.When it comes to _____ (choose) the hobby, consider the following factors. 10.Working on campus is a great opportunity for some college students to get some extra pocket money or to start saving up to pay off _____(loan). 三、阅读理解 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 treading water, just 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. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull. I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words. It takes confidence to make a new-start 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 going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside. Then I met an agen(t 代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel. The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for. It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同)of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbel ... ...
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