学生啦：课时作业（十）Unit 4 Section I Welcome to the unitReadingAs a dropout myself,I often feel it is my duty to defend my fellows.Common wisdom wouldhave you believe we are the "bad kids",the future criminals,the worst sort of people.But not alldropouts are likely to steal goods from a shop,or shoot pool all day.My own favourite place to go when skipping school was always the public library.My earlyretirement meant that at last I had time to read everything I wanted to.I found reading ThomasPynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a lot more interesting than reading about Sir Isaac Newton and thefalling apple.The best of all was the time I finally had to myself.I felt liberated.I had been in schoolnearly my whole life.I wanted to find out for myself who I was,and until I did,everything elsefelt like a waste of time.However,after three years,a series of strange thoughts began to make me anxious and unsureImages of myself at the age of 35 began to haunt (me in my sleep.And a voice in my headbegan asking over and over,"Who is paying the hot water bills?Who buys the microwavepizza?"The answer,of course,was my poor old parents.Sure,I was having an enjoyable timedoing plenty of nothing,discovering myself and all,but that's unfair to them.What kind of parentslong to see their child drop out of school,with no plans for the future?Could they be expected tosupport me forever?Certainly not.I immediately moved out of the house and out of town,insearch of a future for myself.And it is here,in my new home in San Francisco,that I have decided to do what was onceunthinkable:go back to school.I plan to take adult education classes and then apply to CityCollege.On the one hand,I can hardly believe I'm doing it:a return to desks,chalkboards,andclocks that tell you when to stop thinking about one thing and start thinking about another.On theother hand,.at City College,.I'll be able to take film production,.semiotics(符号学)，andsociology-just because I want to know about them.So next time you see a dropout,be sympathetic.And please don't push him to do anything hedoesn't want to do.It never works.He'll come round when he's ready.1.According to the passage,it is commonly believed that dropouts areA.bad kids from birthB.interested in stealing things from othersC.very likely to commit crimesD.responsible for defending non-scholars2.What did the author find most enjoyable after dropping out of school?A.Living in comfort with his parents.B.Reading in the public library.C.Escaping the pressure from school.D.Having time for self-discovery.3.Why did the author move to San Francisco?