C
Ever since I was a little girl,I've loved reading crime and detective novels,so I guess it was pretty normal(正常的)that I started writing them when I was older. However,my family is very big on having a traditional career and so when I said that I wanted to go to college and study writing,my parents told me that I couldn't. They told me that I had to study for a degree(学位)so that I would achieve a career,not something as risky as writing. I suppose I could have studied journalism(新闻),but I didn't want to lose interest in writing because it would be something I would do every day for work,not for pleasure. I thought that teaching looked like a pretty good compromise(妥协),especially because of the long holidays. It was a good choice：by the time I was 25,I'd already finished two novels and had an agent(经纪人).
To be honest,I never meant to keep my being a crime writer a secret or anything,and my friends have always known. One of the reasons most people don't know is that my agent told me that my name Hazel sounded too much like a romance(浪漫)novelist for older women. She suggested Brooke Lane and I thought,“Well,if you think it'll make me successful,okay.” I'd totally forgotten about it until I walked into school one day and saw one of my workmates reading my novel. I asked her some questions about it,and it was so clear that she had no idea that I'd written it — she even offered to lend it to me after she finished! Of course,sometimes I wonder what my students would think if they knew that their teacher was going home on the weekend to write about murders and dead bodies,but I think my parents are probably right in some ways：my teaching job keeps me in touch with the real world.
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B
)7. The underlined words “is very big on” in the passage most probably mean ______.
A. to give no advice B. to like something very much
C. to have more experiences D. to misunderstand something
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A
)8. Hazel finally realized that her parents' advice on her career was ______.
A. helpful B. exciting C. useless D. risky
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B
)9. It's clear that Hazel ______.
A. agreed to study journalism for a degree
B. accepted Brooke Lane as her pen name
C. would like to write something for teaching
D. told her workmates about her writing novels
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C
)10. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Hazel likes showing off in public
B. Hazel's students all want to write novels
C. Hazel's agent has played a role in her success
D. older women prefer the name Brooke to Hazel
