单选题 {{I}} In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.{{/I}}
{{I}} Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.{{/I}}

单选题 What does this passage want to tell us?

A. Warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience.
B. Advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer.
C. Show young people it's unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame.
D. Encourage young people to pursue a writing career.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 11-13 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain there's a big difference between" being a writer" and writing. In most cases they are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the 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 lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose works is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no prospects 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 cold and had no bathroom, I immediately bought a used typewriter and felt like a good writer. After a year I still hadn't got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write I had dreaded about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who die wondering, what it? I would keep putting my dream to the test--even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope. and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. [点拨] 文章主要是建议那些想成为作家的年轻人，要认识到达到这一目的的艰辛，不能纯粹为了追求财富与名声。