阅读理解通常分成五种大题型：主旨题，细节题，猜词题，推论题和作者观点态度题。环球博海四六级小编特整理了2014年6月英语四级阅读之选词填空习题(17)，以供2014年广大备考的考生参考!

　　Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people,but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours 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 __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__.

　　When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ 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 __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ 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 ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.

　　A) barely

　　B) genuine

　　C) rewarded

　　D) doubt

　　E) lonely

　　F) poverty

　　G) persuade

　　H) prospects

　　I)uncertainty

　　J)impossibly

　　K)encourage

　　L)awarded

　　M) alone

　　N)wealth

　　O)cold