单选题 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 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 cafe run by an elderly men and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the women had taken him on for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs end three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron's breath away. At quiet sea 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. Later 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.

单选题 Why did Ron Mackie leave school at sixteen?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。文章开头便说明了原因。未来召唤他说：“Get out of the classroom into a job”(走出教室投入工作吧)，Ron同意了。这样的描写方法实际表明Ron Mackie因想工作面对未来的冲动。选项D正确。对于Ron想工作的愿望，他的父亲只是支持他的决定。所以选项A不是促使他辍学的原因。选项B和C与本文无任何联系。

单选题 What did Ron's Father think about his leaving school?

单选题 It took about a year for Ron to realize that ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。第二段最后一句，作者描述道：He searched for an interest in his work, with little success(他努力寻找工作的乐趣，但成效不大)。由此判断，他那整日往货架上放罐制食品的工作是乏味无趣的。因此，选项D正确。选项A和B完全与题意不符。在超市工作期间，Ron回忆起求学时的生活丰富多彩，令人满意，而不是选项C所讲的being at work was much better than going to school。选项C错误。