I like writing; I like meeting people; I like discovering new things, then telling everyone about them; and I couldn’t keep a secret if you paid me. So I became a journalist.

I wrote for my school magazine, did unpaid work on my local paper, took a master’s degree, got a part-time job, and then became a full-time journalist.

Or at least that is what my resume would say; but the life of a journalist is more exciting than that---even if that excitement can come with a side of pain and frustration.

I have lost count of the numbers of e-mails I have had ignored. I have spent hours at meetings listening as hard as I could for a story——only to go home empty-handed.

Once I ran around knocking on doors in a dark, dangerous-looking street in the snow to find a woman who (my editor had told me) “woke at night to find water pouring on her head”. Somehow I found her. I took photos. I interviewed her, the building owner and the fireman. I wrote the story...then I opened the paper to find it at the back, which on name on it, only 100 words long.

Strangely, though, that challenge made me want to keep going. If you do succeed, the rewards of journalism are truly great.

I once wrote about an old people’s home where residents, including a 90-year-old blind man, were living in rooms that were full of fleas, and being told to do their own repairs. A week after the story was published, the residents phoned me, overjoyed. The managers had apologized and promised to change their ways.

Journalism can be dangerous and dull, and the pay (at least in the UK) is usually terrible. But it’s also one of the most thrilling, rewarding jobs around. For me, there is no better career than making a difference- and telling the world about it.

【小题1】What is the article mainly about?

A．Getting started in a career in journalism

B．The author’s colorful experiences as a journalist.

C．How you can be a good journalist.

D．Why life is easier for male journalist.

【小题2】According to the author, her frustration in her job often comes from_______.

A．unfair treatment

B．fruitless efforts

C．misunderstanding

D．danger and risks

【小题3】What deeply attracts the author as a journalist is that _______.

A．she gets to see her name printed

B．she earns a lot through writing fun stories

C．she can meet different people and hear their stories

D．she can help others and bring about changes in people’s lives

【小题4】From the article we can conclude that the author_______.

A．is not good at keeping secrets.

B．does not mind the challenges in her career.

C．is not appreciated by her editor.

D．is interested in exciting and dangerous work.