1 . To increase your chances of landing an assignment for a travel guidebook, you need to find out what the publishers are looking for．Here are links to their submission guidelines with a few special requirements and tips．
Fonor's
Fonor's is a publishing company of both travel guidebooks and online content covering thousands of destinations worldwide．Visit Fonors．com/about-us, and near the bottom of the page you'll find "Write for Us" with information for submitting articles．Do remember to attach a copy of one of your other works when contributing．
☆TIP: Fonor's always hires writers who live in the destinations they cover．So, it's good to remember: While you may want to write about a foreign destination, more than likely you're closer to being an expert about the place where you live．
Workman
Workman publishes unique and unexpected travel guides such as 1, 000 Places to See Before You Die, and The Food Lover's Guide to Paris．Consider them if you're interested in writing a nontraditional travel guide．You can find their submission guidelines at workman．com/work-with-us．They require a typical nonfiction book proposal with a suggested table of contents and author information．A chapter of your other books is also required．Send your submissions to submissions@workman.com．
☆TIP: If they don't accept your article, you might be lucky enough to get feedback about why．
Lonely Planet
Writers can get in touch with Lonely Planet by visiting their "Become a Contributor" page at LonelyPlanet.com/contribute．At that page you'll find a form asking for a resume（简历）and links to your other writing, but there's also space for more travel-related information such as geographical knowledge and level of fluency in relevant languages．
☆TIP: You'll find they also accept articles for "Travel News"．If they say yes, you may get another chance for a bigger job such as a guidebook．
For more information on publishers, please visit ContributorsDigest.com．
1. This passage is mainly for _______________．| A．guides | B．writers |
| C．travelers | D．publishers |
| A．Fonor's． | B．Workman． |
| C．Lonely Planet． | D．Contributor's Digest． |
| A．Geographical knowledge． | B．Nontraditional ideas． |
| C．Overseas experience． | D．Previous writing． |
2 . My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said, “She may not be up to what we’re trying to accomplish.” He was really saying she didn’t have the intelligence. I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known I was smart when I was failing in school. We had her tested. I decided to get myself tested as well, and found that the troubles she was having were exactly what I had had — dyslexia. By then I was a successful television writer, and had won an Emmy Award for “The Rockford Files.”
If I had known earlier that something beyond my control could explain why I was a low achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me, because I did badly in all my courses.
I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A, “How long did you study for this?” He said, “I didn’t. I just glanced at it.” So he must be smarter. I began to ask, “What will happen to me when I’m not good at anything?” Despite my doubts, I did become successful, and people now say to me, “So you’ve overcome dyslexia.”
No. You don’t overcome it, you learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are very hard for me. Most people who go through college read twice as fast as I do. I avoid dialing a phone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number right.
Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a gift, not a curse (诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought, and that’s what my kind of creative writing is. And I can write quickly, and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is my strength.
The real fear I have for dyslexic children is not they have to struggle in school, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create victories for them, whether it’s music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have other things I can do.”
1. The writer decided to get himself tested as well because he________.| A．wanted to know if they had the same problem |
| B．didn’t believe his daughter had the problem |
| C．had to take a regular medical examination |
| D．accepted that his daughter was not smart |
| A．struggled and got better grades |
| B．didn’t work hard when he was young |
| C．was praised for overcoming dyslexia |
| D．was thankful not knowing of dyslexia earlier |
| A．is less intelligent | B．always fails in school |
| C．reads more slowly than normal people | D．performs worse in left-brain activities |
| A．Clumsy birds have to start flying early. | B．God shuts one door but opens another. |
| C．Never judge a person by his appearance. | D．No one can make a good coat with bad cloth. |
