Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hour 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 longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20 year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance (自由栏目) 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 manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely 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 of those people who die wondering: What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
The passage is meant to__________ 查看材料
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
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第三组:Following a security incident, in which the response measures outlined in the Ship Security Plan (SSP) have been activated, there will be a thorough review of their effectiveness and details will be made available, on request, to persons duly authorized by the Ship&39;s Flag State Administration. The Ship Security Plan is not subject to detailed inspection (other than confirming its existence on the ship) by duly authorized officials of a port State unless there are "clear grounds" to believe that the ship is not in compliance with the requirements of SOLAS or the ISPS Code, and the only means to verify or rectify the non-compliance is to review the relevant sections of the Plan. In such cases, access to the Restricted parts of the Plan relating to the non-compliance is exceptionally allowed, but only with the consent of the Flag State, or the master. If the master, in his professional judgment, believes that such "clear grounds" exist, and allowing access to relevant sections of the Restricted part of the Plan might resolve the situation, such access can be exceptionally granted. However, this should be immediately reported by the ship to the Company Security Officer (CSO). If access to the Restricted part of the Plan is denied by the master, this should be immediately reported by the ship to the Company Security Officer for guidance and reference to the Flag State.
The Confidential part of a SSP cannot be subject to non-flag State inspection unless otherwise agreed by the contracting governments concerned. Any such request or demand by port state officials to view sections of the Confidential part of the Plan will be immediately reported by the ship to the Company Security Officer for guidance and reference to the flag State before any details are revealed to non-flag State officials. The Confidential provisions, which from an integral part of this Plan, are held by the Ship Security Officer (SSO)
After a security incident, the revision of the SSP will made by____.
A. the CSO
B. the SSO
C. persons duly authorized by the Ship&39;s Flag State Administration
D. information not given
阅读以下说明和 C 代码,填补代码中的空缺,将解答填入答题纸的对应栏内。 【说明】 对一个整数序列进行快速排序的方法是:在待排序的整数序列中取第一个数作为基准值,然后根据基准值进行划分,从而将待排序列划分为不大于基准值者(称为左子序列)和大于基准值者(称为右子序列),然后再对左子序列和右子序列分别进行快速排序, 最终得到非递减的有序序列。 函数 quicksort(int a[],int n)实现了快速排序,其中,n 个整数构成的待排序列保存在数组元素 a[0]-a[n-1]中。
【C 代码】 include < stdio.h> void quicksort(int a[] ,int n) { int i ,j; int pivot = a[0]; //设置基准值 i =0; j = n-l; while (i< j) { while (i1) (3) ; //递归地对左子序列进行快速排序 if (n-i-1>1 ) (4) ; //递归地对右子序列进行快速排序 } int main () { int i,arr[ ] = {23,56,9,75,18,42,11,67}; quicksort ((5) ); //调用 quicksort 对数组 arr[ ]进行排序 for(i=0; i
<1>、消费者和经营者发生消费权益争议的解决途径中,不包括()
<2>、消费者和经营者发生消费权益争议的解决途径中,其结果具有强制执行力的最后解决手段是()
ates of Marriage in America
The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage 51 in the United States--about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people--is 52 .higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is 53 as widespread as it was several decades ago. 54 of American adults who are married 55 from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried 56 their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some 57 in their lives. Experts 58 that about the same proportion of today&39;s young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied 59 over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. 60 , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous 61 in U. S. history. Today&39;s later age of marriage is 62 the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married (95percent ) during the 1950s than at any time before 63 . Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rash" of the
late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a 64 to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic 65 and war.
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A. rate
B. ratio
C. percentage
D. poll