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6 / 7 UNIT 4 课时跟踪检测(一) 阅读理解专项练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Eamon O' Kelly I went back to university full­time at 38 to finish my BA degree.I was the oldest student in all my classes but I would see a few older students around the college.I studied history and economics and did very well: I didn't have the distractions that are common among traditional­age students such as partying; I had the discipline that comes from 20 years in the workplace, and thus did everything well and on time; and I had real­world experience that benefited me greatly. Dianne Mclaren­Brighton I got my master's degree when I was in my 40s.It wasn't any more difficult than it was to get my BA in my late teen­early 20s.Most of my classmates were in their mid to late 20s, but other than having a few cultural references that were different, the age difference was not an issue.In fact, I now have a terrific friend who is a decade younger than I and whom I would never have met had we not been in school together. Amer Khwaja I went back to school at 43 and got my BS in photography.I was very nervous about it: I thought the other students would be smarter than me, but that wasn't the case.I thought the other students wouldn't like me, but that wasn't the case, either.For the most part, people just do their own thing.I actually feel I had an advantage in classes in that the professors were mostly about my age so I could relate to them better than the other students. Gill Bullen My husband left secondary school at 15, and joined the Royal Navy; when he left as a junior officer ten years later, they recommended that he should go to university, but he refused; he felt that at 25 he was too old.Fifteen years and a second career in industrial purchasing later, he suddenly decided he wanted to go to university.He had a wonderful time there, was suddenly a good ten years younger, got a very good degree in Computing and went on to a happy third career as a freelance programmer and systems analyst. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章通过四个成年人接受继续教