I’m a writer
Many people think that they can write stories. They A like to be writers. They write stories and send them to magazines. When the magazines don’t want to publish their stories, these people become angry. A lady once wrote a long story. She sent it to a famous editor. After B weeks, the story was returned to her. The lady was angry. She wrote to the editor: “Dear Sir: Yesterday you sent back my story. How do you know that the story is not good? You C not read it. Before I sent you the story, I had pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. This D my test to see if you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were still pasted together. Do you read all the stories that E to you in such a way in the past?” The editor wrote back: “Dear Madam, At breakfast when I open an egg I don’t have to eat all the egg to understand that it is bad”.
A 1) should 2) would 3) must 4) can
B 1) a few 2) few 3) little 4) a little
C 1) do 2) did 3) does 4) was
D 1) is 2) are 3) were 4) was
E 1) were sent 2) was sent 3) are sent 4) send
a would
b few
c did
d was
e were sent