It was in autumn. A young woman was ill. She 1 in the hospital. There was a tree 2 her room. She saw the leaves fall down. Day after day, there were less and less leaves on the tree. The woman was very 3 . She didn't want to eat or drink, and she didn't want to talk. The doctor asked her to 4 and take a walk. She wouldn't do that. She became worse day by day. One day she said, “When the last leaf falls down, I will die, 5 .”

An old artist knew that. He decided to help this woman. One night, all yellow 6 fell down. The artist painted a green and yellow leaf, then put it in the tree. The next morning, 7 the woman looked out of the window and saw the last leaf, she was filled with 8 . She wanted to be alive. She didn't want to fall down like other leaves. From then on, she became 9 and lived a long time.

Don't  10 your hope at anytime.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    Amy was looking for a gift for her little daughter. Suddenly she 1  before a store of dolls. "Girls like dolls,"she thought as she stepped into it.

     Looking around, she saw a 2  doll – one with grey hair and a pair of glasses. In her mind appeared Joyce, her mother.

     When Amy was a little girl, she got her first doll from Joyce for her birthday. Then the second, third … A doll a year from Joyce never arrived  3 .

  "Why always a doll?" This  4 had been in Amy's mind until one day she knew the answer.

Little Joyce dreamed to have a doll. Her parents promised one for her 5 birthday. Sadly, they both 6 in a traffic accident before it arrived. The never-received gift was the most7 thing in her eyes.

    Joyce's story being recalled, Amy got an idea.

    It was Joyce's 60^th birthday. A parcel was sent to her, with a  8  that read.

Dear Joyce,

    I forget to  9  you the parcel that you should have received on May 20, 1956, your fifth birthday. The gift inside has aged, but I felt that you might still wish to have it.

    Love, Angel of Joy

    Joyce opened the parcel and saw a lovely grandma doll. She held the doll tightly that she had waited so many years for, with tears running down her face. The doll, given by "Angel of Joy", made her the  10 "child" in the world.

The day was Thankful Thursday. Thursday has become my day to go out and do charity(慈善) work with my two 1 . On this special Thursday, we had no idea exactly 2 we were going to do. At noon I 3to a McDonald's with my daughters because they kept telling me that they didn't have enough to eat at breakfast. There we saw some homeless(无家可归的) people in the street and we decided 4 lunch for them.

We ordered fifteen 5 from McDonald's and started to give them out. We were 6 to see those thankful people holding up the lunch bags.

    Then we noticed a dirty, old woman 7 at the corner(角落). We handed her our final lunch bag. When we 8 the car and wanted to drive home, she walked to our car and said, "Thank you, lady! No one has ever done 9 like this for me before. "Well, I'm glad that we were the 10 ,"I replied. "So, why don't you eat the lunch now?" I asked.

She just looked at me 11 her tired eyes and said, " I'm not going to eat this lunch. I have a little girl at home 12 she just loves McDonald's, but I can 13 buy it for her because I don't have the money. But tonight she can have McDonald's! "

    I don't know if the kids noticed(注意) the tears( 眼泪) in my eyes. So many times I questioned （询问）myself whether（是否） our acts of kindness were too 14 to make a difference. However, at that moment, I 15that we cannot do great things but we can do small things with great love.

    We were going to play against a team from a country school. They didn't come until the game time arrived. They looked1than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue jeans(牛仔裤)and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.

    We all sat down. We felt we didn't 2any practice against a team like that.

    It was already so late that no3could be given to them for a warm-up(热身，准备活动). The game began.

    One of our boys 4the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward. From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt5the pass and with a beautiful form(姿势)he shot and got two points.

    They6us. Then they got another7of points in a minute.

    Soon it was all over. The country team8us. We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another9a little better. But the important lesson learned was: One can't tell a man, or a team, by the10.

    The school music club opens. Tony wants 1 the club, but he doesn't like to go alone(单独）. He likes his friends to go to the 2 with him. So he 3 them at home, but everyone is 4 .

    Martin is doing his homework at home. It usually 5 him two hours to finish it.

    Peter is writing an e-mail to his pen friend Gina on the 6. He is telling 7 about his school life. In fact he doesn't like 8. Jim likes music very much, 9 Miss Green is teaching him and his classmates to sing songs at school. They are having a 10 contest.

Alice is having her 11 birthday party. Her parents are making a cake for her. We can see twelve candles(蜡烛)on the table.

    Kate is helping her brother 12 his English. He always doesn't do 13 in his tests.

    Tom is playing baseball with his sister. It is his favorite 14 .

Tony is not happy15no one can go to the club with him.