19．Not long ago，I faced an enjoyable yet formidable（難以對付的） challenge．I was returning to my old neighborhood in the South Bronx to speak the students of my old school，Morris High．As we drove down streets where my friend Gene Norman and I used to race bicycles，I thought of the problems awaiting the kids living here，the drugs，the temptations，and the crime．What could I say to encourage them？
As we passed the hamburger place that I used to haunt，I remembered my growing-up years here，the joys，the sorrows，and the choices．Even then kids faced choices．There were drugs in my neighbourhood and a youngster could gain easy access to them if tempted．But in my family，the decision was simple：You just didn't do it．We knew it was stupid and the most self-destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you．
At age of 17 I found a summer job in a local soft-drink bottling plant at 90 cents an hour．I was thrilled．On my first day of work，having joined the ranks of other newly hired teenagers，I was full of enthusiasm．The bottling machines caught my eye，but only the white boys worked there．I was hired as a porter and the foreman handed me a mop（拖把）．I decided to be the best mop user there ever was．Right to left，left to right．
As our car rolled on，our driver's voice broke my thought．"We are here，General．"I looked up at my old school； it hadn't changed much．As I walked up its familiar stone steps I remembered racing up them to beat the bell．The setting for my talk to the student body was the gymnasium．
"I remember this place"，I told the students．"I remember it all．I remember running through Van Cortland Park with the track team，the victory I used to take each day from my home to Kelly Street to school．"
"I also remember，upon occasions，experiencing the feeling‘you can't make it'"，I continued．"But you can．When I was coming up，opportunities were limited．But now the opportunities are there to be anything you want to be．But wanting to be isn't enough，dreaming about it isn't enough．You've got to study for it，work for it，fight for it with all your heart energy and soul so that nothing will be denied you．
I wanted them to make the right choices，to work hard and not lose sight of a dream．And I wanted them to know that someone is always watching．
41．Why does the author say that he faced an enjoyable yet formidale challenge？BecauseC
A．he was very much afraid of returning to his old neighborhood
B．his old neighborhood is problematic with drugs，temptation and crimes
C．he was going to make a speech to schoolboys and schoolgirls of Morris High
D．there are problems on the road his car was driven on and this worried him
42．The author thinks it wasDfor kids to face choices when he was young．
A．very exciting
B．only natural
C．very easy
D．really a sad thing
43．According to the author，the stupid and the most self-destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you isC．
A．to get easy access to choices
B．to hang around the hamburger place
C．to get addicted to drugs
D．to resist the temptation of drugs
44．Which statement is TRUE according to the article？A
A．The author went back to his old school as a general
B．The author was the best mop user there ever was
C．The author was very excited about his first job
D．The author believed that you can become anything you want．
分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了作者作為一位將軍回到了母校為學(xué)生們發(fā)表講話，作者鼓勵學(xué)生們抵制毒品的誘惑，在人生中要做出正確的選擇，不要失去自我．
解答 41．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第一段"I was returning to my old neighborhood in the South Bronx to speak the students of my old school，Morris High"我要回我的老鄰居在南布朗克斯講我的老學(xué)校對學(xué)生，可知我覺得愉快有挑戰(zhàn)是因?yàn)橐ツ感＝o學(xué)生作講話了；故選C．
42．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第二段"We knew it was stupid and the most self-destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you"可知作者認(rèn)為只能讓孩子去做決定這是一件令人難過的是；故選D．
43．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第二段"There were drugs in my neighbourhood and a youngster could gain easy access to them if tempted…We knew it was stupid and the most self-destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you"可知作者認(rèn)為你可以用上帝給你的生活所能做的最愚蠢和最具自我毀滅性的事情是吸毒成癮；故選C．
44．A．推理判斷題．根據(jù)文章第四段"our driver's voice broke my thought．"We are here，General．"I looked up at my old school"我們的司機(jī)的聲音打破了我的想法，"我們在這里，將軍"我看著我的老學(xué)校；可知作者作為一位將軍回到了母校；故選A．
點(diǎn)評 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進(jìn)行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí)，要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．
