文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了迈克尔·乔丹早期参加高中篮球队的经历,九年级结束后,好友史密斯和他一起参加了波谱·赫里的篮球训练营,想要加入高中球队,虽然乔丹表现出色,但是却落选了,他当时很难过,但是在运动队二队中他积极表现,令球队的比赛变得受欢迎,他总是坚持到比赛的最后,不轻言放弃,一段时间后他成了高中球队中的新星。
There were already signs that Michael Jordan was very talented as a young boy. Harvest Smith, a good friend, played basketball with him every day then, and thought he was the best player on their ninth-grade team.
The summer after ninth grade, Jordan and Smith both went to the Pop Herring’s basketball camp to run for the high school team. All the other students looked much stronger than Jordan, because they were two or three years older than him. To Smith, it was quite clear that Jordan was better than him. But on that day the results were announced. Smith’s name was on the list. Jordan’s was not.
It was the worst day of Jordan’s young life. He kept reading the list, hoping that he had missed it, or that there was something wrong with the list. That day he went home and cried. “We knew Jordan was good,” Fred Lynch, a coach said later, “but we thought the jayvee (学校运动队第二队) was much better for him.” Jordan became the best player on the jayvee that year. There were matches in which he could get forty scores. He was so good that the jayvee matches became quite popular.
Smith found that Jordan had been very competitive before he was cut, and after that he seemed even more competitive than ever. His coaches found it, too. “One day, the jayvee had a match. When I came into the gym, the match was just ending up. Their scores fell behind a lot. All the other nine players had given up, but one kid still played very hard. It was Jordan, and I quickly learned he was always like that.”
Some time later, Laney High School had a very good basketball team, and its rising star was Michael Jordan.
28. Why did Jordan go to the Pop Herring’s basketball camp?
A.To stay with his best friend. | B.To join the high school team. |
C.To prove he was the best player. | D.To be a rising basketball star. |
29. Why did Jordan cry after he went home from the camp?
A.His name wasn’t on the list of the high school team. |
B.His friend was chosen by the high school team. |
C.He was badly hurt when he played basketball. |
D.There was something wrong with the name list. |
30. What happened when Jordan was on the jayvee that year?
A.Everyone on the team liked Jordan. | B.There were not any matches that year. |
C.The jayvee matches became quite popular. | D.Jordan got all the scores in the matches. |
31. What can we infer from the last sentence of the passage?
A.Jordan got an overnight success. | B.Jordan was still on the jayvee some time later. |
C.Jordan became a basketball star in the world. | D.Jordan was a member of the high school team. |