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I remember clearly the last time I cried. I was twelve years old, in the sev

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问题     I remember clearly the last time I cried. I was twelve years old, in the seventh grade, and I had tried out for the junior high school basketball team. I walked into the gym; there was a piece of paper on the wall.
    It was a cut list. The boys whose names were on the list were welcome to keep on coming to practices. The boys whose names were not on the list had been cut; their presence (出席) was no longer desired.
    I had not known the cut was coming that day. I stood and stared at the list. The list had not been made with a great deal of consideration; the names of the very best players were at the top, and the other members of the team were listed in what appeared to be a descending (下降) order of basketball skills. I kept looking at the bottom of the list, hoping against hope that my name would appear if I looked hard enough.
    I held myself together as I walked out, but when I got home I began to cry. For the first time in my life, I had been told officially that I wasn’t good enough. Sports meant everything to boys that age; if you were on the team, it put you in the desirable group. If you were not, you might as well not be alive.
    All these years later, I remember it as if I were still standing right there in the gym. I don’t know how the mind works in matters like this; I don’t know what went on in my head following that day of cut. But 1 know that my determination has been so strong ever since then; I know that for all of my life since that day. I have done more work than I had to be doing, put in more hours than I had to be spending. I don’t know if all of that came from a determination never to allow my-self to be cut again—never to allow someone to tell me that I’m not good enough again—but I know it’s there. And clearly it’s there in a lot of other successful men too... [br] The underlined word" it" in the last paragraph refers to______.
选项 A、the determination of never being left behind
B、the memory of being considered a weak boy
C、the decision of never playing basketball again
D、the experience of being cut from a sports team
答案 A
解析 推理题。题干意为“最后一段画线单词it指的是——。”由最后一段可知，作者由于一次被淘汰的经历，开始下定决心，并且此决心非常强烈，以至于在他的一生中他做过的工作比需要做得更多，他为之投入的时间比需要的更多。再从最后一段第四句“I don’t know if all of that came from a determination never to allow myself to be cut again…but I know it’s there．”可知，虽然他不知道他所做的这些是不是都来自于这个决心：不能允许自己再被淘汰。但是，他知道它在那儿。由此可以推测，it指的是“不落后的决心”。故A为正确答案。
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