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I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respected, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two; they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of destination once the joumey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. I never heard of anyone making a skeleton, as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remaking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh, the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.
This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. A blurred image appears, he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the’ yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books, like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, superimposing new ones, begging response from those around them.
Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also. Incidentally, an unforgivable bore. This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please.
A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.
1. The writers that the author is familiar with confess that they would
A. work out the ending of a novel in advance.
B. follow the writing methods learned at school.
C. remodel the main character in writing.
D. make changes to the stories they first construct.
2. According to the passage, the process of writing
A. depends on skillful planning.
B. is predictable and methodological.
C. depends on the writers’ experiences.
D. is disorderly and unsystematic.
3. The word undoing in the third paragraph probably suggests
A. success.
B. happiness.
C. failure.
D. sorrow.
4. According to the passage, the writer has no resting place because
A. he is not clear about what he will write at the beginning.
B. he should constantly edit his work to make it perfect.
C. he has to face a lot of responses given by readers.
D. he should add brushstrokes to the appearing blurred images.
5. Which of the following statements about writers is TRUE according to the last paragraph?
A. They have little ideas before they start writing.
B. Their talent goes into all their drafts.
C. It does harm to their writing when they flirt with fame.
D. They try to increase communication with readers.
【文章概要】
第l段指出作家在写作前后，作品的内容往往可能发生极大的转变。第2段承接上文指出这一有机写作过程，往往能引领作者达到自我发现的境界：并指出作家在写作完成后的各种默示。第3段指出作家如不美观狡计经由过程他人的评论体味自己塑造的形象，就相当于为取悦他人而写作。第4段指出作家需不竭创作和改削作品的真正原因及作家追逐名利的风险。
【谜底解析】
1.[D]细节判定题。按照familiar with，confess及各选项内容定位到第1段。第1段指出，这些作家在写作前后，作品的内容往往可能发生极大的转变，其中作者提到，有一位作家就将小说的布景从克什米尔搬到了苏格兰高地。由此可见，D的表述合适辞意，为本题谜底。文中指出，这些作家动笔之前不会有整篇的构想，也不会按黉舍所教的那样列出提纲，A、B可解除。文中只说作者起头写作时可能心中已经设定了一两个脚色，并没有提到会否从头塑造或改变作品的首要脚色，故C应解除。
2.[D]细节揣度题。第1段明晰指出，作者熟悉的那些作家在写作过程中没有既定的思绪，情节设置也往往按照需要或更深体味素材后才做出响应的转变和调整，这就剖明，写作过程有点“杂乱”，构想也不很系统化;此外，第2段提到。如不美观作家脑海中呈现了朦胧的形象，他们会在此基本上做肆意的改动。由此可见，D正确。按照文中介绍，写作过程并没有完整的构想，也无法预见，只是在写作过程中不竭完美，可很快将A、B解除。此外。作家在写作的过程中会更多地体味所汇集的素材，这也与履历无关，故C也解除。
3.[C]词义揣度题。第3段指出作家如不美观试图拉近自己与读者的距离，狡计经由过程他人的评论体味自己塑造的形象，就相当于为取悦他人而写作。四个选项中，较能归纳综合这种行为性质的是C。此外，undoing有“杀绝”之义，故C为本题谜底。
4.[B]因不美观关系题。按照题干中的no resting place定位到第4段。第4段段首提到：作家的才调表此刻初稿，而艺术则表此刻之后不竭改削的稿子中。第2句以For this reason(鉴于此)引出作家不能歇息的气象。由此可见，第4段首句的内容，即作家需不竭创作和改削作品：以实现由才调到艺术的改变是作家无法歇息的真正原因。故8为谜底，A、C、D不合辞意。
5.[C]细节判定题。末段末旬指出：“当他追逐名利时，他就脱离了自我糊口，脱离了对自己心里最深处世界的试探”，故C合适辞意，为本题谜底。选项A、D均来自文中，但与末段无关，可解除。B与原文表述“作家的才调表此刻初稿，而艺术则表此刻之后不竭改削的稿子中”不符，可解除。