D

KIDS in a Sudanese refugee camp raise a cloud of dust as they kick around a football. NBA superstar Traey Mc Grady watches from a distance before offering to buy the kids a grass patch for $1,000.

Perhaps he sees a Ronaldinho rising up out of the African soil. Or maybe he just wants to do something—anything—to give these children some hope. But he is told, politely, that grass is not what the kids need.

Mc Grady, 29, writes on his website that he traveled to Africa because he was tired of only reading about it in the news.“Who are the faces behind the statistics?” he said.“I need to see it for myself.” And he did. He stepped out of his beautiful house and flew to a place torn to bits by war and famine(饑荒). He slept in a tent. He talked with people who had suffered. And he swallowed his pride.

But no one should blame Mc Grady for wanting to buy the kids a patch of grass. Sport gave him a chance, so perhaps he thought it would do the same for the refugees.

Mc Grady was eyed by NBA scouts as a teenager and he didn’t bother going to college. Instead, he leaped right into the NBA. Since that move, basketball has given him a handsome living, but one very far removed from the lives of ordinary people. As Mc Grady would learn in Africa, most people see sport as just a break from life’s difficulties. They don’t mistake it for life itself. Only Mc Grady knows how the trip to Africa changed him, but I’d bet that, at the very least, it has given him a new sense for what is truly meaningful.

Mc Grady doesn’t own an NBA championship ring. He hasn’t risen to the heights of Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan. But, perhaps, now he knows he doesn’t have to in order to truly make a difference in the world.

63.The refugee children most probably need______.

A.clean drinking water           B.a grass football patch

C.necessities of survival          D.a tent to sleep in

64.What can we learn about Mc Grady from the passage?

A.Basketball made him what he is today.

B.He is an NBA superstar as great as Kobe or Jordan.

C.He didn’t show his talent for basketball as a teenager.

D.He taught children to play football in a refugee camp.

65.What does the underlined part “scouts” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.players.      B.fans.         C.audience.       D.hunters.

66.Mc Grady learned from his visit to Africa that______.

A.he needn’t improve his basketball skills to reach the heights of his seniors

B.sport gave him a chance and means everything to him

C.people in hunger can never understand the importance of sport

D.what’s truly meaningful can be a world of difference to different people

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