阅读下列短文，从下面每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

C

    A frightening incident took place Sunday night on a plane. According to reports, the United Airlines overbooked (超额预订) the flight, so they asked passengers to give up four tickets so that four United Airline staff (工作人员) could take the seats. The airline first looked for volunteers. They offered $400 for anyone who agreed to leave the flight, then increased to $800 and a hotel stay, but no passengers would give up their seat. In the end, the airline staff used computer to select four people to be kicked off the flight.

    A 69-year-old passenger among the four unlucky passengers refused to leave and said he had to work at a hospital the next day. Three guards then showed up and pulled him out with force. The old man was badly hurt after the struggle. The flight finally left after two hours.

    The scene was recorded by other passengers and posted on the Internet. You can hear the old man shouting at the guards, saying what they were doing was wrong. Many people expressed their anger at the incident.

    The CEO of United Airlines defended the actions of the staff. In a letter he said to his staff, “Our people followed the rules for dealing with situations like this,” His response to the incident was thought as having a bad attitude. After the incident, United Airlines loses $800 million in the stock market (股市). A day and a half after the incident, United Airlines finally admitted it did something wrong. The government will survey the incident to find out whether the United Airlines had followed the rules.

Drawing on a New Friendship

    Last Saturday, I went to the park to draw. When I finished the outline of a girl, a shadow（影子）fell across my drawing.

    "That's not a bad start", said the shadow. "Do you have any finished drawings?" I looked up to see a girl about my age.

    I was displeased that someone was looking at my drawing and interrupted me. "Not bad?" I asked.

    "No need to be angry." The girl handed a sketchbook(素描本)to me." Want to look at my drawings?"

    I felt curious and traded sketchbooks with her. Her sketches of people were okay, but I was really attracted by her drawings of nature, like trees, rocks, and rivers, all done with great detail.

    "Wow！You have some talent," I said. "What's your name?"

    The girl took back her sketchbook and answered, "Emma Thompson."

    "I'm Alice Ruiz, "I said." You draw so well. Are you in an art class?"

    Emma replied, "No. The art class is full, so I have to wait until next term. Besides, you're a talented one. I really find it difficult to draw people, but you make it look easy."

    "I have a great idea！"I said." Let's draw together！You can draw the nature views on one piece of paper while I draw the people on another. Then we'll exchange and finish each other's drawings. That way, both drawings would show off both of our talents!"

    "That's not a bad idea, Alice, "Emma agreed.

    About an hour later, we completed our drawings. I had drawn a boy walking with his dog. Emma had added a path and some flowers. Emma had drawn a beautiful tree, and I had added a girl reading under the tree.

    "This was a fun idea, "I said." Hey, Emma, would you like to meet me here again to draw together?"

    "See you next Saturday, Alice, "Emma said with a smile.

Today was a clear day and I had a great farm trip with my friends.

We got to the farm at nine o'clock. A nice farmer called Uncle Tom welcomed us. Our first stop was the Chicken House. We helped feed(喂) the chickens. The chickens were quite friendly and it was not difficult to feed them at all.

Then Uncle Tom took us to walk around the farm. It was amazing(令人惊讶的) that there were no people but many robots doing the farm work. That was quite different from the farms that I visited before. Soon it was 11:30 and it was time to cook lunch. We were not good at cooking but we all tried our best. We cooked beef and some vegetables. They were not very delicious', but we ate them up.

After lunch, we had a short break and then we went to the Warm House. We picked and ate many big and red strawberries there. My friends took some home to share with their family, but I didn't. Because only I love strawberries in my family.

What a nice day! I think I will go to the farm again.

Leonardo da Vinci (莱奥纳多·达·芬奇) was famous artist who was born in Italy. He was also a great inventor. Many of his inventions have become important in modern life. Although Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and used in war. Besides, Leonardo spent days thinking about how to save time. He developed ideas for something like cutting machines.

Leonardo was strange man. He never ate meat. That was very unusual in those times (时代). He never published (发表) scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like usual writing in a mirror, starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left side.

Only a few of his paintings are left today. Many paintings were not finished because he thought they were not perfect.

Leonardo was talented and creative. He was regarded as one of the most intelligent men in the world.

This summer, when I walked into my grandparents' house with my little brother Frank, Everything still looked the same. Grandpa's blue 1 was on his chair. My cousin Jack was playing in the yard as if nothing had happened. 

" Let's go to catch fish!" Jack pulled out the fish net from the corner, Grandpa's net. 

 Last summer, I was holding the 2 when Grandpa asked me whether I could help him teach Frank to play chess. I said no because I wanted to catch fish. Grandpa had been the one who'd taught us how to catch fish, but then the 3 made him stay behind. 

 Now I wouldn't have a chance to play chess with him any more. Nobody knew how 4 I was for saying no to Grandpa. 

 When we reached the stream, we began to catch fish. Suddenly, Jack shouted, " Look! Frank is in the water. He is shaking!" We hadn't brought anything to keep 5 , so I had to send him home. Grandma was 6 to see a wet Frank. She hurried to take him into the room and 7 put Grandpa's blue blanket around him. 

 As I went to the stream again to meet Jack, I looked back at Frank with that old blanket. Something seemed to 8 me at that moment. Everything was just like before, but Grandpa was gone. 

I walked to Frank. " Did Grandpa teach you to play chess last summer?"I asked. " No, Grandpa   was too sick then. " he said, "I 9 him. "

" Me, too. " When I said it, I knew Grandpa was never gone. What 10 us was still there. It could be the fish net. It could be the chess. It could be the blue blanket. 

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