Ответ: Word Meaning in Context

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Julie

Two things happened to Julie in the summer before her senior year at Chicago College. Her literary agent Celesta sold her second and third books to the same publisher for twice the money for each book as Julie got for the first one. The reviews on her first book had been excellent, and the publisher was in a 30 ______ to publish Heroes, her second book, in time for Christmas that year. Celesta hadn’t 31 ______ them her recently finished fourth book. Julie and Hadson, her editor, still wanted to 32 ______ it. And Celesta wanted to see how the next one did. If it was as successful as she hoped, she was going to ask for a lot more money on the next contract.

The second thing that happened that summer was that totally by 33 ______, through the creative writing professor, she got a summer job in Washington working for a major publisher for two months. The professor called her and asked if she’d be interested, and Julie wanted the 34 ______. It was a different publisher than her own, and she wanted to learn more about the business. She discussed it with Celesta that night, who encouraged her to do it, and she 35 ______ the next day. It was an internship so the pay was minimal, but she had the money from her book deal, and still more than enough of what her father had left her. It was going to be an exciting summer for her. Julie loved being in Washington and learning more about publishing, and writing a completely different kind of book than she wrote before, 36 ______ her first two books had terrific reviews.