文章大意：这是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章用Wade LeBlanc虚心接受出租车司机的建议，改变自己的投球动作最后取得成功的例子，告诉我们：我们往往会高估专冢的建议，而低估普通人的建议，而事实上我们经常会从普通人那里得到非常有用的建议，一个人要想成功，就要虚心接受普通人给的建议。
1 . One morning in July 2011, a taxi sat wandering outside Petco Park stadium in San Diego. And Wade LeBlanc, a baseball pitcher (投手) for the Padres, climbed in. “To the airport, please,” he told the driver. LeBlanc was headed for Tucson, Arizona, home of the club’s A-level branch organization at the time. He’d been sent down to the minors. Again. For the eighth time in three years. It seemed everything was turning dark.
“You’re Wade LeBlanc,” the taxi driver said.
“Right.”
“You got some good stuff.”
This surprised the pitcher, after the previous night’s disastrous performance.
“I think there are some things you should think about trying” the driver continued. “I don’t know; I’m not a player. Maybe something like going over your head in your windup (摆臂动作).”
Wait, what? This guy was offering... advice? Earlier in his career, LeBlanc might have laughed. Or been angry. But today, he just listened. He couldn’t afford to miss anything. His career was on the line.
The next day, in Tucson, LeBlanc met his pitch coach. He said he was thinking about improving his windup. His coach agreed. Instead of keeping his hands tight to his chest at the beginning of his delivery, LeBlanc raised them briefly over his head, as the taxi driver had suggested. LeBlanc mixed the new move into his next start. And he was smart, allowing only one hit over seven periods. It was the turning point in his career. Eight years later, LeBlanc is a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He signed the first contract extension of his Major League Baseball career—at age 33.
The funny thing about advice: we so often take it from the wrong people. That is, we overvalue the advice of experts while undervaluing the input of common people. Wade LeBlanc bucked (反抗) that trend, and he succeed. So sometimes people need to do what Wade LeBlanc did: hear what a taxi driver is offering him and accept it as a gift.
1. How did LeBlanc feel when he took the taxi?
| A．Bored. | B．Excited. | C．Surprised. | D．Unhappy. |
2. What did the taxi driver do when LeBlanc was in the taxi?
| A．He praised LeBlanc’s couch. |
| B．He said really bad words to LeBlanc. |
| C．He shared his personal experience with LeBlanc. |
| D．He gave his opinions about what LeBlanc might try. |
3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 7 can be understood as ______.
| A．He left behind his team |
| B．He moved into his new start |
| C．He was at risk in his baseball career |
| D．He got a promotion in his Major League Baseball career |
4. What did LeBlanc do when he arrived in Tucson?
| A．He said sorry to his coach. | B．He started to change his moves. |
| C．He decided to go to a new team. | D．He thought back to his last game. |
5. What does the author mostly want to share in the passage?
| A．Don’t waste time. | B．Don’t look down on anyone. |
| C．Keep moving and never give up. | D．Value and accept people’s advice wisely. |
