阅读下面短文 ,掌握其大意 ,然后从 36 ~ 55 各题所给的四个选项([ A] 、[ B ] 、[ C]和 [ D ] )中,选出最佳选项。
One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm. At 16, I liked (36) better than driving our truck, (37) this time I was not happy. My father had told me I' d have to askfor credit(赊账) at the store.
Sixteen is a (38) age, when a young man wants respect, not charity. It was 1 976, and the ugly (39) 0f racial discrimination(岐视) was (40) a fact of life. I'd seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while the store owner(41)whether they were 6' good for it. "I knew black youths just like me who 'were(42)like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.
My family was(43). We paid our debts. But before harvest, cash was short. Would thestore owner (44) us? At Davis' s store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer. I nodded (45)I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my (46)to the cash desk, I said (47), "1 need to put this on credit. "
The farmer gave me an amused, distrustful(不相信的 ) (48). But Buck' s face didn ' t change. "Sure," he said (49). "Your daddy is(50)good for it. " He (51) to the other man. "This is one of James William ' s sons. "
The farmer nodded in a neighbourly (52). I was filled with pride. James William' s son.
Those three words had opened a door to an adult' s respect and trust.
That day I discovered that the good name my parents had (53) brought our whole family the respect of our neighbours. Everyone knew what t0 (54) from a Williams: a decent person who
kept his word and respected himself (55) much to do wrong.
36.
[ A ] something
[ B ] nothing
[ C ] anything
[ D ] everything