【正文】 or enter the society,” she went on, “ it is your own decision. Your life ought to be decided by you, not by anyone else, including me. ” After saying that, she had tears in her eyes. For the first time in my life I was asked to make my own decision. I sat in my chair and thought about myself, my life and what kind of person I wanted to bee. It took me what seemed to be ages to make the biggest decision so far in my life— I wanted to be a man who makes a difference in the world. To achieve that, I needed to study hard. The path to my future became clear to me. I didn’ t act rebelliously(叛逆地 ) any more. With passion (激情 ) in my heart, I studied hard. Now, I’ m 17 and I’ m in one of the best schools in my city, in one of the best classes at the school and I am one of the best students in the class. Thanks to that decision, I have bee what I am today. 58. When did the writer make the important decision? A. After he was 17 years old. B. After he was in one of the best classes. C. When he was a pupil. D. When he was studying in Junior 3. 59. What was the writer like before the decision? A. His grades became poor. B. He tried too hard not to act as an adult. C. He was one of the top students in his class. D. He did what his teachers and his parents asked him to do. 60. Why did the writer make the decision? A. Because his teacher talked with him patiently. B. Because he didn’ t want to act rebelliously any more. C. Because his mother asked him to study hard as usual. D. Because his father asked him to think about his future by himself. 61. Which of the following is TRUE? A. The writer made the decision that he should work hard. B. It took the writer several years to make the decision. C. After hearing his mother’ s words, the writer had tears in his eyes. D. At the turning point of his life, the writer wanted to have a conversation with his mother D It was my first day at school in London and I was halfexcited and halffrightened. On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and practiced all the answers: “ I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven’ t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It’ s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I also wondered if it was the custom（習(xí)慣） for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk（冒險(xiǎn)） it. No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “ hello” , but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all the curiosity my arrival aroused（喚醒） . My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn’ t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: “ Timbuktu” , and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: “ Portsmouth” , and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right. This didn’ t make me very popular, of course. “ He thinks he’ s clever,” I heard Brian say. After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’ s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper. “ He’ s big enough and useless enough,” Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me. I suppose Mr. Jones remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty（罰球） . As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down instinctively（本能地） and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed（擦傷） and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me. “ Do you want to join my team?” he said. At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger. 62. The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT “ _________” . A. How old are you? B. Where are you from? C. Do you want to join my team? D. When did you e back to London? 63. We can learn from the passage that _________. A. boys were usually u