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12临.护.检本英语（2012上半年） (4)第二次复习题 一、阅读理解（判断正误） （一）My Law School Life My father knew that something was wrong when he encountered me, late one afternoon, sitting on the stoop （门廊）of our house. The dean of the University of Colorado School pf Law, I said, had decided that I couldn’t return to classes next fall. My grades were too low. After listening calmly, my father then contacted the law-school dean. But there was no changing the decision. Your don is an excellent young man, he had said, but he’ll never make a lawyer. He even urged that I look for another career. In the meantime, he advised that I stay put in the grocery store where I worked on weekends. I wrote a note to the dean to ask whether I could go back to the school. It went unanswered. Even today words cannot describe my upset. I’d never really failed at anything significant before. In high school I’d been a popular student and a highly regarded football player. I’d coasted through （轻松拿下） the University of Colorado at Boulder without much hard work and had been admitted to its famous law school. My dad knew how much I wanted to become a lawyer. He suggested I look at Westminster College of Law, where classes were held at night because students there held down （保持）day jobs. Dad’s advice was really practical （现实的，实际的）， but it hurt like hell, when I began to picture myself at Westminster after having attended law school at Boulder. In truth, my self-confidence had also been hurt badly. I began to wonder whether I had the ability to become a lawyer at all. But in the end I went to see Clifford Mills, Westminster’s dean. I’ll never forget him peering at me through his glasses. “Boy,” he said, “ the only thing you did well in at Boulder was athletic and Spanish course.” He let me enroll at Westminster on one condition that I repeat all my first-year classes, this time paying attention. One door had closed. But others had opened. Given a second chance, I worked much harder, becoming fascinated by law. In my second