As Harlan Coben has suggested it's a 8 of priorities. To make writing a priority, you'll have to 9 some of your day-to-day activities and some things you really enjoy, depending on your 10 and your life style. That might mean spending less time watching television or listening to music, though some people can write 11 they listen to music. You might have to 12 the amount of exercise or sport you do. You'll have to make social media an 13 activity rather than a daily, time-consuming 14. There 'll probably have to be less socialising with your friends and your family. It's a 15 learning curve, and it won't always make you popular. There's just one
thing: you should try to keep at least some time for, 16 your writing and that's reading. Any writer needs to read as much and as widely as he can. It's the one 17 supporter - something you can't do without. Time is finite. The older you get, the 18 it seems to go. We need to use it as carefully and as 19 as we can. That means prioritising out activities so that we spend most time on the things we really want to do. If you are a writer, that means 20 writing.
全文的首要意思：假定想变成一名胜任的作家，有必要在写作上投入满足多的时刻，这意味着削减其他活动的时刻和坚持阅览以堆集材料。文章用许多篇幅罗列了创造路上的种种拦路虎，分析了写刁难自个现有日子可以发生的影响。
1. 答案：B（一般的、正常的）。句意：对他来说，写作就像其他任何作业相同，是一份普一般通的作业而已。简略错的是Csteady，意思是“平稳的”；平稳的作业未必是一般作业，所以不选C。
A.difficult
B.normal
C.steady
D.pleasant
2. 答案：B（比照）。句意：他把写作与管道作业进行比照。留心compare A With B是比照两者的相同之处而不是差异。这儿的意思是说，管道工不大约找托言不去上班，作家也不能以时刻不可或许其他托言而不进行创造。
A.combined
B.compared
C.confused
D.confronted
3. 答案：B（尽管，尽管）。本句需要联系下一句才干选出来正确答案，尽管though和but不能在一句话里连用，但可以涣散运用。句意（本句+下句）：尽管因忙于生计而很难找到写作时刻，但并非完全抽不出时刻来写作。
A.If
B.Though
C.Once
D.Unless
4. 答案：D（简略的）。句意：不易找到写作时刻。
A.enough
B.strange
C.wrong
D.easy
5. 答案：C（记住）。句意：我们应当记住，许多热销书作家都是兼职写作。
A.Accept
B.Explain
C.Remember
D.Suppose
6. 答案：A（有名的）。本句是对上句的弥补，句意：出名专家也常常从事其他作业来抵偿写作收入的缺乏。言下之意，出名专家如此，你作为一个籍籍无名的作家，更没有理由光想着专职创造了。（和咱们考研党是不是有点像？）
A.well-known
B.well-advised
C.well-informed
D.well-chosen
7. 答案：C（弥补、抵偿）。句意：出名作家也常常从事其他作业来抵偿写作收入的缺乏。Supplement writing income即writing income缺乏，需要经过其他方法加以抵偿。
A.donate
B.generate
C.supplement
D.calculate
8. 答案：C（疑问）。句意：要处置的就是优先级疑问，即哪些先哪些后，哪些做哪些不做。
A.cause
B.purpose
C.question
D.condition
9. 答案：B（牺牲、奉献）。句意：已然要把写作列为高优先级的作业，必定要牺牲一些其他喜爱。
A.highlight
B.sacrifice
C.continue
D.explore
10. 答案：B（快乐喜爱喜爱）。句意：为了写作要牺牲一些喜爱，具体牺牲哪些喜爱与你的快乐喜爱喜爱及日子方法有关。
A.relations
B.interests
C.memoties
D.skills
11. 答案：C（一边......一边......）。句意：一般作家专门花时刻来赏识音乐，但把写作列为优先作业今后，需要削减音乐时刻。单个作家能边听音乐边创造，他们无需做改动。
A.until
B.because
C.while
D.before
12. 答案：D（削减、降低）。句意：削减运动量。前面说到为了创造牺牲快乐喜爱喜爱，一个比方是削减听音乐的时刻，再就是削减体育运动量了。
A.put up with
B.make up for
C.hang on to
D.cut down on
13. 答案：B（偶尔的、偶尔的）。句意：牺牲快乐喜爱喜爱还包括，正本习气于每天花许多时刻从事交际，但如今只能偶尔为之，即交际变成了一种偶尔进行的活动。
A.intelligent
B.occasional
C.intensive
D.emotional
14. 答案：A（习气）。句意：交际不再是一种每天花许多时刻进行的习气性活动。
A.habit
B.test
D.decision
D.plan
15. 答案：A（困难的）。句意：削减与亲友的交际并非易事，你得学着这么做，会越做越好（learning curve）。
A.tough
B.gentle
C.rapid
D.funny
16. 答案：D（除......以外）。句意：其他的快乐喜爱喜爱没有时刻都可以省掉，除了给写作留时刻，阅览时刻也不能省。
A.in place of
B.in charge of
C.in response to
D.in addition to
17. 答案：A（必不可以少的）。句意：许多广泛的阅览与写作密不可以分，不坚持阅览就难以写出好的作品。
A.indispensable
B.innovative
C.invisible
D.instant
18. 答案：D（更快的）。句意：年纪越大，如一起间就跑得越快。
A.duller
B.harder
C.quieter
D.quicker
19. 答案：C（有功率地）。句意：因为时刻飞逝，所以要细心高效有利地势用好时刻。
A.peacefully
B.generously
C.productively
D.gratefully
20. 答案：D（首要地）。句意：因为时刻飞逝，所以方案要有优先级，要把时刻花在自个真实喜爱的作业上，对作家来说，最重要的就是把时刻用在写作上面。
A.at most
B.in turn
C.on average
D.above all
