英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇036: 乔丹退役演说(含答案)_大学英语阅读

英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇036: 乔丹退役演说(含答案)

　　英语四级阅读理解精炼第036篇，练习关于乔丹退役演说的阅读理解，含有四级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。

　　36. Jordan Retirement

　　I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball. It won t be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature1 .

　　Mentally, I m exhausted; I don t feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel great. The last time in 1993 I had other agendas. I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age, it was a good opportunity and time to do it. And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that.

　　Actually I talked to Jerry last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally, I was a little exhausted. I didn t know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season. And Jerry, once we had our conversation, wanted me to take time as I did in 1993 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.

　　I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time, mentally finding the challenge for myself. Although he can somehow present challenges for me. I don t know if he could have presented the challenge for me to continue on to this season. Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired. So I can t say that he would have restored that.