先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    An old carpenter(工匠)was ready to retire(退休).His boss was 1 to see the good worker leave. He asked the carpenter if he could build just one more 2 . The carpenter said yes, but his mind was not on his work any more. He used poor materials and 3worked on the house. When the carpenter finished his work, the boss  4 the front-door key to him and said, "This is your house. It's a 5 for you."

    What a surprise! If he had known he was 6 his own house, he would have done it differently. Now he had to live in the house he poorly built.

    So it is with us. Sometimes we build our 7 carelessly. At important points we do not try our best. Then with a shame we look at the things we did. We find that we are living in the house we have poorly built 8we don't have a chance(机会)to make it all over again.

    Think of  9as the carpenter. Think about your life. Build it carefully and wisely. It is the only life you will ever build because life is a do-it-yourself project.

    Your life today is the 10 of  your attitudes(态度)and choices(选择)you made in the past. Your life tomorrow will be that of your attitude and choices you make today.

    Jane is a school girl. She is twelve. She studies at a middle school. She is in Grade Seven. She is a good girl. Jane gets up at seven in the morning. Then she has her breakfast. For breakfast she has eggs and a cup of milk. She doesn't have tea for breakfast.

    After breakfast Jane goes to school. At twelve she comes home from school. She has lunch with her mother. For lunch she has hamburgers and salad. She likes salad, but she doesn't like hamburgers.

    At seven she has supper with her father and mother. They have chicken and vegetables. Her father likes chicken, but Jane doesn't.

My mother is 82 years old. Each week I take my mother out to do shopping and visit the doctor，because she has difficulty in1 . She is unable to express herself clearly. 

Last week she walked to a nearby store to buy some small things by herself，because I was busy. When she went to2 for her things，she found that she was short of three dollars. The only way to pay for the goods was to3 a cup. By dropping it，she was able to buy the new total with the cash she had. 

At this store，people looked around and chose their own goods. My mother was putting her things into shopping bags4 without talking to others. Suddenly a5 came up to her and said， "Here is the cup that you put back. " Then she6 my mother the cup. My mother asked for the woman's name and7 so that she could repay her by post （邮寄）. But the woman told her the cup was her gift. 

My mother was8 . The next day，she decided to go back to the store and give the worker a five﹣dollar bill to keep on hand. When the9 thing happened to someone else unexpectedly，the worker could use the bill. 

Whoever you are，you should thank for the act of10 . That not only help others，but may help yourself one day. 

John is a student in Guangming Primary School（小学）. He doesn't like sports and he doesn't like 1 homework. He often says to his teacher, "My homework is at home. " or "My homework is 2 . "

October 11th is his 3 birthday, and luckily（幸运地）, John and his classmates 4 a school trip to a park that day. 5 teacher, Miss Miller, takes her students there by train（火车）. On the train, Miss Miller says, "Now, boys and girls, we can see many interesting things outside the window. I want you 6 them carefully （仔细地） and write them down on your notebooks. It will help you 7 your composition（作文） after the trip. 

The students look out of the window. Miss Miller and other students are all happy. 8 John lies（躺） on the train floor. When Miss Miller sees that, she asks John," 9 are you on the floor?"

"Miss Miller, if I can not see things out of the train, I don't need to write them on the 10 and then I needn't write a composition. Right?"

This is a tale of two friends—one is blind, the other has no arms. On their own, the two are "disabled". But together, they are a powerful team that has changed part of their village in North China's Hebei Province into a rich, green forest. Meet 53-year-old Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi! 

Their story began in 2000, when Haixia, who was already blind in his right eye, lost his left one after an illness. Wenqi lost his arms in an accident when he was just three. Neither could. find a job, so the two decided to team up. They rented some poor land and began to plant trees. In return, the local officials paid them a small fee. 

Haixia and Wenqi never imagined that they would end up creating an environmental paradise. Their forest now has over 10,000 trees, hundreds of birds and many other wild animals. In addition, it saves the village from river flooding during the rainy season. 

When the friends work together, they focus on their strengths not their disabilities. Their day begins at 7 a. m. when the sightless Haixia carries Wenqi across the river to get to their worksite. Since they cannot afford to buy young trees to plant, the two use branches from existing trees. Haixia climbs to the tree-top and with Wenqi's direction, selects the perfect branch. He then digs a hole and carefully plants it. Finally, Wenqi waters the area. 

Though hard-working, the men don't make much money. But as Wenqi puts it, "We stand on our own feet. so the fruits of our work taste sweeter. "

Neither Haixia nor Wenqi cares about money. Together, they already have everything they need—a perfect pair of eyes, two strong hands, and the best friendship in the world!