单项选择题
Directions: Read the following passages and choose the best
answers to the questions.
At sixteen Ron Mackie
might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. "Get out of
the classroom into a job," it said, and Ron obeyed. His father, supporting the
decision, found a place for him in a supermarket. "You’re lucky, Ron," he said.
"For every boy with a job these days, there’s a dozen without." So Ron joined
the working world at twenty pounds a week.
For a year he spent
his days filling shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was
looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety (多样性) and
satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little
success.
One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift
on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart and a great
longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening,
in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a café run by an elderly man
and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on
for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three
meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron’s breath away. At quiet
times Ron had to check the old man’s arithmetic in the records of the
business.
At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He
was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a
living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three
weeks. Late in October, he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron
soon found himself in charge there; He was the only one who could keep the
books.Why did Ron Mackie leave school at sixteen
A. His father made him leave.
B. He had reached the age when he had to leave.
C. He left because he was worried about the future.
D. He left because he wanted to start working.
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