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M5【大学英语阅读与欣赏，河南人民出版社，2006】
Passage 1
阅读导引（适用于M5）
2003年4月16日上午，NBA历史上最伟大的球员——迈克尔•乔丹，在费城第一联合中心球馆打完了他最后一场比赛，从此告别了NBA赛场。但乔丹是永远无法取代的，15年的篮球生涯，成就了NBA的辉煌。学生时代的乔丹在篮球运动中就已崭露头角，但他也非一帆风顺。
美文欣赏
There were already signs that Michael Jordan had a good deal of talent. Harvest Smith, a classmate and close friend of Jordan, thought Jordan was the best player on their ninth-grade team. He was small, but very quick. “You’d see him shoot a ball, and you’d wonder how he did it, because he wasn’t that big,” Smith said, “but it was the quickness. The only question was how big he was going to be.”
The summer after ninth grade, both Jordan and Smith wanted to join the school’s basketball camp. Neither of them had fully grown up yet, and almost all of the varsity players, two and sometimes three years older, seemed much stronger at that time. In high school games a year or two in physical development can make all the difference. In Smith’s mind there was no doubt which of them would be accepted—of course it was Michael Jordan. But on the day the varsity list were announced, there came a big surprise. Smith’s name was on it; Michael’s was not.
It was the worst day in Jordan’s young life. He went home by himself and cried in his room. Smith understood what was happening—Michael, he knew, never wanted you to see him when he was hurt.
“We knew Michael was good,” Fred Lynch, the assistant coach, said later, “but we wanted him to play more and we thought the jayvee was better for him.” He easily became the best player on the jayvee that year. He simply dominated the play, and he did it not by size but with quickness. There were games in which he would score forty points. He was so good, in fact, that the jayvee games became quite popular. The entire varsity began to come early so that they could watch him play in the jayvee games.
Smith noticed that after he was turned down by the varsity, Michael Jordan became more competitive than ever, as if he determined that it would never happen again. Between the time he was cut and the start of basketball in his junior year, Jordan grew abo
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