先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

    Amy is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta early on the morning of March 12, when a man 1her to her door, and put a gun(枪) to her side.

    “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really 2 ,”she said in a TV interview last week.

    The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He killed three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police were 3him.

    Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged(恳求) him not to take her 4 again and again. “I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,” she said with tears.

    “I just talked to him and tried to make him believe me,” Smith said.

    She asked Nichols 5 he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel6 from God, and God asked him to do so.”

    Smith even 7 for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was8when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing the police looking for him. “I cannot believe that's me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman.

    Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 9do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, more people are going to get10.”

    Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

    A man stopped at a gas station and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to 1 and he watched a couple of men 2 along the roadside.

    One man would dig a hole two or three feet 3 and then move on. 4man came along behind to fill in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind 5 in the old hole.

    The man with a soft drink was confused. "I can't stand this," said the man walking toward the men. "Stop it," he said to t e men. "Can you tell me what's 6 here?"

    "Well, we work for the county government," one of the men said.

    "But one of you is digging a hole and the other is filling 7up. You're not accomplishing anything. Aren't you 8 the county's money?"

    "You don't understand," one of the men said.

    "Normally (通常地) there are 9 of us: I Rodney and Mike. I dig the hole Rodney sticks in the tree and Mike here puts earth 10."

    "Yeah," said Mike. "Today Rodney is sick. But that doesn't mean we can't work, does it?"

    A long time ago，there was a king in India．The king's 1 game was chess．

    One day，a wise old man 2 to the palace and the king challenged him to 3 game．The king promised the old man．"You can4 any prize if you win the game．"

    The old man5 ， "If I win the game，I'd like one grain of6for the first square of the chessboard，two for the second，four for the 7 ， and then double the amount for each of the 8of the squares．"

    "Is that all？"asked the king，"Wouldn't you like gold or silver9？"

    "No，just rice．"replied the old man．

    The king and the old man played the game 10  a long time．Finally，the old man won．11  the king ordered his men to collect a bag of rice．He12  one grain on the first square，two on the second，and so on．The king quickly realized the13—even with all the rice in the country，he would14  not have enough rice to put on all the 15 ．

    Children like to copy（模仿）what they hear. They copy their parents， their friends and even the TV. This teaches them how to speak the language. Copying is also 1 for students of a second language. When you listen to foreigners speak English， repeat 2 they say.

    Children don't practice grammar， but they can use the language to talk about things that 3 them. They don't complain 4 their vocabulary or poor grammar. They can find ways to express themselves， and they do it 5.

    Students who are learning English should also pay their attention to 6. Look for chances to talk with people in English. If you can't find a 7 to talk to， you man talk with other students who know English instead. 8 an English discussion group and talk about music， movies 9 whatever interests you. Don't worry about 10. The objective（目标）is to learn how to communicate easily and comfortably. Remember that you communicate successfully even with a small vocabulary.

    Tom and Linda were working in a big factory together. One day they were asked to go on a business trip. So they had to find a babysitter to take care of their two lovely babies.

    A week later, as they drove into their home town they noticed some 1 and went to see what it was. A house was on fire! Linda said, “Well, the house isn't ours. Let's go.”

    But Tom kept driving closer and said, “The house belongs to Fred. It has nothing to do with us, so let's go,” said Linda. Tom drove up and said nothing. A woman was 2 in the street. “My children! Help! Help!”

    Tom asked her to show him 3 her children were. “In the bathroom.” cried the woman. 4Linda didn't agree. Tom hurried to the bathroom which is full of smoke. He soon found two children. As he left, he could 5 some other sound like crying. He quickly sent the two children to a 6place. But he was told two more children were 7 inside. Linda shouted 8, “Don't go back! That house will fall down at any moment.”

    Tom went back by feeling his way down into the room. It seemed a century had passed before he find both the children and the way back. When they 9, Tom was so excited to find that he just saved his own children!

    The babysitter 10 them at this house while she did some shopping.

    We had a sports meeting last Saturday. It was a big 1 in our school.

    Wu Ying, who is usually the best runner in our class, 2 fell and hurt her leg me day before the sports meeting. It was ten o'clock in the morning. It was 3 for the girls' 800-metre race with two laps (圈). My classmates asked me to run the race. But I'm not a good runner. 4 should I do?

    "Just try!" my teacher said. " 5 in yourself!" my classmates said.

    "OK."

    On the first lap, the girl from Class 2 was in the front. She ran much faster than I did. 6 I did my best to catch up with her in the race.

    "Come on!" When I passed the seats of my classmates. I could 7 them shouting. "Run! Run!"

    I was just running and running. I must catch up with her. At that time l was not far behind her. At the end of the 8 lap, we were neck and neck.

    "Come on! Come on!" I could still hear my classmates shouting.

    "Come on! Come on!" I said to myself too.

    There, the finishing line was right before us. We 9 it at the same time. Both she and I took the third place.

    "Hooray!" the students called out to me. "Well done!"

    But I was too 10 to go any farther and fell to the ground.