I left university with a good degree in

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问题 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 Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.Then I met an agent who said I should send my novel out to agents.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 of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?A.Disturbed.B.Ashamed.C.Confident.D.Uncertain.

选项 A.Disturbed.
B.Ashamed.
C.Confident.
D.Uncertain.

答案 D

解析 推理判断题。根据文章第三段话 “It takes confidence to make a new start” “My confidence dived” “Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside”及本段叙述了作者回答别人问题时提到 “I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there”可知,此时他的感觉应该是还不完全确定他现在是否还要继续写他的小说。故答案选D。
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