63. The main idea of this passage is that ___________.

A. Teenagers need friends

B. Friends can give good advice

C. Parents often choose their children’s friends for them

D. Good friends can communicate with each other

C

John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Fortunately(幸运地)he had a strong - willed , caring mother . John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son , you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe . ” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” said she . “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard . ”

These words came from a woman with less than a third -grade education. She worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough money to take her son - then 15-to Chicago.

Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land(乐土)that black southerners were looking for . John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school , and here he learned the power of words - as an editor(编辑)of the newspaper at Du Sable High School . His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try . ” She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine .

It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary. ” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America.

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