In low tones, the dean was explaining to a prospective law student the conduct expected of him. “We have fixed up a room in the basement for you to stay in between classes. You are not to wander about the campus. Books will be sent down to you from the law library. Bring sandwiches and eat lunch in your room. Always enter and leave the university by the back route I have marked on this map.” The dean felt no hostility toward this young man. But it was 1949, and this young man was a black. George was frustrated at the pattern of life laid out for him. Yet encouraged by his father, George had chosen this and accepted the challenge. On the first day of school, he went quickly to his basement room, put his sandwich on the table, and started upstairs for class. He found himself moving through wave upon wave of white faces that all mirrored the same emotion—shock, disbelief and anger. When the lecture began, he tried hard to focus on what the professor was saying, but the hate in that room made him unable to think. Every morning when he came to his basement room, he found threatening notes under the door. The trips from the campus back to his rented room in town became a test of nerve. He took his problems to his father in long letters. His father answered, “Always remember that they act the way they do out of fear. They are afraid that your presence at the university will somehow hurt it, and thus their own education and chance in life. Be patient with them. Give them a chance to know you and to understand that you are no threat.” Despite his hard work, George barely passed the first semester exams. His trouble was that in class all his nerve endings were alert to the hate that surrounded him. So in the second semester, using a kind of note-taking he had learned in the army, George recorded every word his professors said. Then at night he tried to forget the day’s unpleasantness and studied the lectures until he could almost recite them. By the end of the year George went into the examinations exhausted, both physically and emotionally. On the afternoon when the marks were due, he went to his basement room. There was a knock on his door and he called, “Come in!” He could hardly believe what he saw. Into the room came four of his classmates’ smiling at him. One said, “The marks were just posted and you made the highest A. We thought you’d want to know.”Then, embarrassed, they backed out of the room.
4. The word “due” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “_____”.
A、recorded
B、released
C、delayed
D、evaluated
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：根据原文：The marks were just posted，可知答案为B。
