[单项选择]Chris Gardner’s unlikely road to riches started in the parking lot of San Francisco General Hospital in 1982. Then age 29 and the father of year-and-a-half-old Christopher, he was barely making ends meet as a medical equipment salesman. He was about to get into his ear when he saw a red Ferrari searching for a parking space. Impulsively, he waved the driver over and said, "I’ll give you my spot, but I want to ask you two questions. What do you do, and how do you do it"
The Ferrari’s owner said he was a stockbroker. Gardner asked what the job paid. At the time, the top salespeople where Gardner worked were making $ 80,000 a year. "This broker was making $ 80,000 a month," Gardner recalls.
The two men hit it off. Over occasional lunches, the broker explained how the business worked and how to break into it. He even gave Gardner a list of referrals, Gardner began knocking on doors— but had them slammed in his face. "At the time, brokerage firms were starting to require MBA degre
A. is one of those ordinary rags-to-riches tales
B. sounds incredible and hence a special one
C. shows that college degrees don’t matter in brokerage business
D. encourages people to make money by investing in the stock market