阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A,B,C,D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    The first note I ever wrote for my mother said "Hi, Mom! Have a nice day！Love, Marie!". I was twelve when I wrote it, and I folded the1into her change purse（零钱包）.

    My mother worked as a cleaner in a clothing factory. I knew that when she2meals in the dining hall, she would have to look for change in her purse. I didn't know that she would3that note，and always carry it with her.

    From the day that I4folded the small piece of paper into my mother's change purse, she and I left each other5notes. They would be put in the fridge, under a lamp, or beside the TV set. I6found one hidden in my shoe. From the outside, our notes may have been general7 of our days，ideas and wishes. But to my mother and8 ， they were a lifeline-a communication with each other that no one else9.

    On October 20, 2009，my mother died after a long illness. I stood near her bed，10her hand. I didn't cry the day my mom died11I didn't cry a week later when I went to collect her things. I was so thankful that she no longer had aches and12.

    Recently, I found a note that my mom. had13 me. It had been hidden in the14of my favorite childhood book for years. It read“Dear Marie，I love you always. Miss you a lot. Don't forget me. Be15 ！Love，Mom”That day，I cried.

    Tom lives in London. His1have a shop at their house and they both work there. He is six years old now and goes to school The school is a little2from their shop and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he's not 3for class and his teachers like him.

    It's Monday today Miss Hunt is teaching them to4from one to ten. Tom studies5. Soon he can count them Miss Hunt is6and asks, "How many people are there in your family, Tom?"

    Tom stands and begins to count with his7. Then he says, "8, Miss Hunt."

    "9are they?"

    "My father and my mother."

    "Oh?" Miss Hunt is surprised. She says, "There are three people in your family"

    "But now I'm not10, but at school, you know!"

    Time is very important in our lives. But it never had any importance in my life until I1a watch from my father that made me responsible（有责任）. It2me the importance of time in my life.

    I got this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the3 at 9:00 a.m.to pick up my uncle Ali and take him to my father's house. However, I forgot it4I was playing with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a.m., I5my uncle, but I was late for him. He had got out of the plane and 6 a taxi to my father's house.

    I got to my father's house at 2：00p.m.7.My father looked at me angrily. I said "hi" to him and my8uncle. My father asked me to sit 9 him and handed me this watch which was a gift from10 . It weighed 8 oz and all of it was made of silver. Then he said, "Essa, did you have fun11your friends today?

    What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your12."I felt sorry and told my father that I wouldn't do it again. Then he said," This watch will be a reminder（提醒物） for you. I hope today you have learned something13.”

    I learned a lesson from my father to respect（尊重） time and14be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its15, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.

    Eric is 13 years old. He likes animals. Tony is Eric's 1. He is only 6 years old. He likes animals, 2.

    One day, Tony says to Eric, "How about 3 to the zoo this Sunday?" Eric thinks it is a good idea. But the zoo is 4 from their home. He asks their father to drive them there, but their father has no time because he has to work on weekends. Eric thinks he can.5 a bike to the zoo,6 Tony can', because he is too 7 Then Eric asks their mother to take them there.

    Their mother says," OK. Let's go to the zoo by 8".

    This 9 morning, they take the bus there. At the zoo, they see many animals. Elephants are Eric's favorite because he likes big animals. Tony 10 likes pandas, so he watches them fora long time. Tony and Eric ask," Mom, 11 are your favorite animals?" Their mother says," All the animals are my favorite. But now people 12 many trees, animals are losing13 homes, some animals are in danger, so we14 save them, because animals are our friends."

    15 4:00 pm, they finish their visit. When they are on the bus back home, they are all very happy.

Luke Hayes-Alexander, 32 years old, looks like a typical eighteen-year-old boy. He speaks slowly and is quite shy. However, when he talks about food, he is different! "My life is about food shopping, preparing food and serving." Luke was the executive chef(行政主厨)of Luke's Gastronomy in Kingston, Canada, started by his parents in 1993. When he was a kid, he liked reading cookbooks. Soon, he started helping his father with cooking in the kitchen. At the age of fourteen, Luke left school and decided to learn more about food. Then, at the age of sixteen, he became the chef and started changing the small family restaurant into a center of creative dishes.

Luke cares about his ingredients(原料)a lot:  they all come from local(当地的): arms and he chooses them carefully. Everything in the restaurant is home-made. Even the wine in his restaurant is from his own vineyard(葡萄园)."I enjoy cooking. I hope every ingredient in my dishes is beautiful and fresh and that the customers will enjoy the taste of my food, "he said.

Luke is happy in Toronto. He has many plans and is already working on a new cookbook. And then he would also like to go to Europe in the future to find out more about cooking and talk with some famous cooks. What words does Luke have for other teenagers interested in cooking?" Have fun, get dirty, listen to some good music and cook!"