a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.B，D在文章中没有任何依据，排除。C项的strange很有迷惑性但文中说到的是strange hat not the man.
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All through my boyhood and youth，I was known as an idler;and yet I was always busy on my own private end，which was to learn to write.I kept always two books in my pocket，one to read，one to write in.As I walked，my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words;when I sat by the roadside，I would either read， or a pencil and a note-book would be in my hand，to note down the features of the scene or write some poor lines of verse.Thus I lived with words. And what I thus wrote was for no future use;it was written consciously for practice.It was not much that I wished to be an author(though I wished that，too)as that I had vowed that I would learn to write.That was a proficiency that tempted me ;and I practised to acquire it.Description was the principal field of my exercise;for to anyone with senses there is always something worth describing and town and country are but one continuous subject.But I worked in other ways also;I often accompanied my walks with dramatic dialogues，in which I played many parts;and often exercised myself in writing down conversations from memory.
This was all excellent，no doubt.And yet this was not the most efficient part of my training.Good as it was，it only taught me the choice of the essential note and the right word.And regarded as training，it had one grave defect;for it set me no standard of achievement.So there was perhaps more profit，as there was certainly more effort，in my secret labours at home.Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me，in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety ，in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction(巧妙特色) in the style，I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.I was unsuccessful and I knew it;and tried again，and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful;but at least in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm，in harmony，in construction and the coordination of parts.I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hzlitte，to Lamb，to Wordsworth，to Defoe，to Hawthorne.That，like it or not，is the way to learn to write;whether I have profited or not，that is the way.It was so，if we could trace it out，that all men have learned.
1.In this passage______.
A.an expert tells about how writers become successful
B.a writer tells about the techniques of writing
C.a student tells about how he learned to write
D.a writer tells about his experience of learning to write
2.Fromt his passage we can infer that____.
A.it is a good habit for everyone to take books in his pocket while idling in the street.
B.practice and imitation are important in learning to write
C.one had better start to learn to write from one's younger days
D.failure is the mother of success
参考答案:D\B
