大学英语六级考试(Cet6)阅读理解辅导材料(6)_大学英语阅读

大学英语六级考试(Cet6)阅读理解辅导材料(6)

　　故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的，没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我，她非常想让我被拥有大学学历的人收养。所以在我出生的时候，她已经做好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到，当我出生之后，律师夫妇突然决定改要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)在半夜接到了一个电话:我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴，你们愿意收养他吗?他们回答道:当然!但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。在几个月以后，我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学，她这才同意。

　　And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.