请阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    Carlton Joseph is a fashion designer(服装设计师), but not just any fashion designer. He appears on television, he writes books, and he owns his fashion house.

    Born in 1980, Carlton started designing clothes when he was eleven. His father owned a clothes store, and Carlton used to work there at the weekend. Then he did a design course at college.

    When he was 21, someone suggested doing a TV program. He made his first show “Carlton's Clothes” in 2004, and he wrote his first book in the same year. Since then he has written four more. Carlton got married to TV producer Susan Mills in 2005.

Three months ago, Carlton started his new company. He called it “Design Carlton”.

At work Carlton always wears black trousers and a blue coat, but at home, or when he goes out, he wears clothes with bright colors (red, blue and yellow). He is especially crazy about new glasses, he buys a new pair every few weeks. “I like to look different every day,” he says.

     Carlton started wearing glasses when he was twelve. He dyed(给……染色) his hair red when he was 18. It is still red, and this year, for the first time, he has grown a beard. “My wife likes it, that's why” is his explanation. But his beard is black.

    A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ¥100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this ¥100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.

    Then he said, “I am going to give this ¥100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.

    “Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.

    “My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valua­ble lesson today. No matter (无论) what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value (价值). It was still worth ¥ l00!”

    Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crum­pled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.

    You are special and valuable. Don't ever forget it!

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    17-year-old Brennan Agranoff, a colorblind boy, started his custom sock business in middle school, with a small loan(贷款)he got from his parents. Up till now, he has sold over $1 million worth of socks online in the last four years.

    Brennan thought of the idea for his custom sock company at just 13 years old. He was attending a high-school basketball game in his hometown of Sherwood, Oregon, and noticed that many kids his age were wearing the same white Nike sport socks. The boy told himself that if these white plain sacks were so popular with kids, then some cool custom designs would surely be an even greater hit.

    But the boy didn't tell his parents about the business idea immediately. He spent six months researching things like printing machines and technology and drawing up a business plan. Only when he had everything planned out did he ask his parents for a loan. "They thought the idea was a little out there," Brennan recently told CNN Money, but he kept pushing, and finally received a $3,000 loan to start his company. Then he began to work on his own designs. The fact that he was colorblind didn't stop him and he has created aver 200 designs now.

    Business was slow the first year, but then Brennan started pushing his HoopSwagg products heavily on the Internet. Orders soon started coming in in large numbers, and HoopSwagg became a popular brand among custom sock lovers. Right now, his designs can be found on HoopSwagg website, Amazon and eBay.

    Four years after starting his business, Brennan has achieved great success while balancing(平衡)school, house chores and his social life. And he says he loved every minute of it.

Emma was dreaming. In her dream, she was sitting on a train. A boy next to her asked her, "Excuse me, do you know {#blank#}1{#/blank#}the train will get to London?"Emma didn't have a watch so she didn't know how she {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(can) answer his question. She was about to ask her sister Annie when she heard someone waking her up. It was Annie.

"It's too late, Emma! Get up!" Then Emma had to get up.

Annie liked making plans. At the breakfast table, she asked Emma to write down what she {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(have to) do today. "The mouse problem is serious. Could you tell me {#blank#}4{#/blank#}You'll deal with(处理) it today?"

"Yes! Mousetraps(老鼠夹) can kill mice. So after breakfast I'll go and buy one,"answered Emma.

"Write it down," said Annie.

Emma took her pencil out of her pencil case, but she stopped. She forgot {#blank#}5{#/blank#}she could spell the word"mousetrap". She was sure that Annie would laugh at her. She wanted to know {#blank#}6{#/blank#}she put her dictionary last night.

"On the sofa? No,"Emma said to herself."In the bookcase?"

Annie was a little impatient. She asked Emma {#blank#}7{#/blank#}she didn't write down the word quickly.

Emma didn't hear {#blank#}8{#/blank#}Annie said. She couldn't stop yawning(打哈欠). From far away she could hear the boy say, "Your dictionary is next to your pillow (枕头)."Hearing that, Emma smiled.

Can you imagine a school with only one student？There is one on the Ferries Island，and Aron is the lucky dog. 

With no roads leading to the land，the only way to arrive at the Ferries Island is by1 . Aron isn't the only child on the 2 and he hasn't always been the only student at the school. There were some other students there，including two of Aron's brothers. As they got 3 ，they went to the secondary school in the nearest town. Since then，Aron has been the only student in the school. 

Aron's school is very 4 ，with only one classroom and a playground. Each week Aron studies maths，English5 . She also gives him PE lessons. This is usually a6 around the island . Aron has the school playground all to himself. But there is one problem. He has no one to7

Aron has lived on the island since he was born. He's never 8 the island so he doesn't know anything about the outside world. Aron enjoy s his life there，but his mother is worried that Aron might get 9 . She would like to see more families with10 coming to live there. She hopes her son can no longer be the loneliest schoolboy in the world.