【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
(I—Interviewer; J—Jordan)
I: Welcome, Jordan. What was the rush to jump out early?
J: It was Coach Smith"s call, I relied so much on his knowledge, The NBA was an area where I wasn"t too knowledgeable. My parents weren"t knowledgeable about it, either. And it was a great opportunity. Coach Smith felt that it would be the best opportunity for me to make it in professional basketball. Once he researched the situation to find out where I would go in the draft, then I started weighing the pros and cons.
I: Wasn"t that pretty unselfish of him, because it meant he would lose you the next season?
J: That was totally unselfish. It"s the kind of person that he was. He could have said, "You should stay for your senior year. We have a great team with some great new recruits." Kenny Smith and Brad Daugherty were coming on. Our team was going to be really good. But he felt like for me, personally, going to the NBA was the best thing, and it was the best opportunity.
I: You were drafted number three. Did you have any idea before the draft where you were going to go? Were you surprised? Were you disappointed?
J: At the time I committed to go pro,
I was projected to go to Philly because Philly was in the third spot.
Back in those days, the draft was based on wins and losses. At the time, Philly was in the third slot. But Chicago started losing games. If you lost games, you could move up in the draft. So once Chicago moved into third place, Philly moved to fifth.
But then we got assurance from Houston that if they lost the coin flip to Portland, they"d take me. But if Houston won the coin flip, they said they were going to take Hakeem Olajuwon. And that"s exactly what happened Portland went to its fallback pick, which was Sam Bowie.
If Portland had won the coin flip, they would have taken Hakeem, and I would have ended up in Houston.
But the coin flip came to Houston, and that put me back to third with Chicago.
I: OK, I see. Let"s talk about this little white ball.
J: That addiction. Now, that is an addiction.
I:
When did you start playing golf?.
J:
I started playing inthe summer of 1984.
I had just committed to go pro. And I went out and played some holes at North Carolina. I went with a good friend of mine, John Simpkins, who was on the golf team at the time with A1 Wood, and we played 18 holes with Davis Love, who was attending North Carolina at the time. I parred one of the 18 holes, and I"ve been hooked ever since.
I: Aren"t you good friends with Tiger Woods?
J: Oh yeah.
Tiger and I met about eight years ago.
It"s ironic, because he is in the same scenario from a marketing and business standpoint that I was when I came into the NBA. I"ve been able to answer some of the questions that he"s had about dealing with certain things. Our friendship has grown since then. And we talk all the time about mental approach, dealing with the expectations from the public.
I: Fine, Jordan, thank you so much.
J: Thank you.
Why did Jordan rush to jump out early?
[解析] 本题的出题点在对话开始处。对话开始主持人就问Jordan为什么突然决定参加选秀比赛。Jordan回答说It was Coach Smith"s call. I relied so much on his knowledge，即“这是Smith教练的决定，我特别依赖他(在篮球这一领域)的知识”，由此可知，答案为A。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Which team did Jordan plan to join in the first place?
[解析] 本题的出题点在因果关系处(because)。题干问的是Jordan原本打算加入哪支球队。对话中Jordan说到At the time I committed to go pro, I was projected to go to Philly because Philly was in the third spot。project to意为“计划，打算”，与题干中的plan同义，projected to go to Philly，即原打算去Philly，故答案为B。