CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
First-time novelists are often one-time novelists. They 0 capture everyone’s attention with a best-selling debut and shoot to literary fame – take The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Having 1 their expectations, many are either boosted by their success or struck by writer’s block, 2 that the public are expecting a follow-up to hit the shelves almost immediately. This perceived pressure can result in writers feeling 3 of repeating their success, sometimes leaving fans waiting decades for their next book.
But there are also writers who have no intention of putting pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard – ever again after 4 their ambition to become a published author. 5 of their success, these writers are often happy enough to have got their ‘own’ story out there but do not 6 to spending their lives writing. And then there are writers who just 7 to produce something that 8 with a new trend or philosophy. Timing can be everything, but one thing’s for certain: the reasons for having a one-hit wonder are as individual as the stories – and writers – themselves.
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