通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

    Do you have a pen friend? I have a pen friend. Do you want to know something about him? Now let me 1  you. His name is Eric and he comes from 2. He is 22 years old. He's a driver and 3 at a train station. He's a handsome man  4 blond hair and blue eyes. He has  5 round face. His favorite color is 6, so he usually wears white clothes. Joe gets up early in the morning and then 7 for half an hour. He thinks running can help him to keep  8. He is good at playing   9 and he is in a soccer club. He goes there every Sunday.  

    He invited (邀请) me to 10 his country, Australia. I'm going there next month. And I think I'll have a good time there.

    Susie Sunbeam was not her real name. It was Susan Brown. But everyone called 1 Sunbeam, because she had such a sweet, smiling face. She 2 took brightness with her wherever she went. Her grandfather first gave her this 3, and it seemed to fit the little girl so 4 that soon it took the place of her own.

    Even when Susie was a baby, she laughed and smiled from morning till night. No one ever heard her cry unless she was 5 or hurt. When she had learnt to 6, she loved to go around the house and get things for her mother. 7, she helped her as much as she could.

She loved 8. She would sit by her mother's side for an hour at a time, and ask her many questions. At other times, she would take a new book and read quietly. Susie was always pleasant in her play with other children. She never used a(n) 9 word , but tried to do whatever would make her playmates happy.

    One day, a(n) 10 little girl with an old torn dress passed by. Susie heard some children teasing and laughing at her. She at once ran out to the gate, and asked the little girl to come 11.

    “What are you crying for?” Susie asked. “Because they all 12 at me.” she said.

    Then Susie took the little girl into the house. She 13 the little girl with kind words, and she gave her one of her own best dresses and a good pair of shoes. This brought real 14 to the poor child, and she thought that Sunbeam was the 15 name for Susan Brown.

    Hello, my name is Diana. I have a brother, Steve. We grow up together,1we are very different. For example, I'm outgoing, but he is2. I love English. I3studying English when I was little and I'm studying harder now. My brother didn't like it at first. However, when I learned some English songs, I often sang to him. Now he not only loves to listen to English songs, but4likes to sing! My brother can swim very well. I was not good5swimming in the past. Last summer, he took me to the6every day and helped me learn 7to swim. Now I can swim8than all my friends! I enjoy telling jokes. My brother can never remember a9, but he likes to listen to them. Every day I make him10by telling him jokes.

    One day a man and his donkey（驴）were walking down the road. They 1a traveler on the road and the traveler wanted to hire（租用）the donkey. The owner 2, but he said to the traveler," This animal is very 3. I always have to use a stick（枝条）to make it move. I 4 that I go with you. You can ride on the donkey's back while I 5 behind."

    Then they started out. At noon, the weather was so hot that they decided to stop and have a 6. The only shade（阴凉处）they could find was 7 the donkey.

    Both men tried to sit there but there wasn't enough8. The owner said," I should be the one to sit under the donkey 9 this is my donkey."

   "But I 10 for the ride," said the traveler.

   "No," said the owner." You paid to ride on the donkey, 11 not to sit under the donkey. So the shade belongs to 12."

    They argued on and on. When they 13 stopped arguing, they found that the donkey and the shade were both gone. The traveler had to 14 to his town while the owner had to spend hours 15 his lost donkey in the sun.