先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

    Tina was a seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a bright smile. She suffered from a disease and had to use a walker most of the time. People didn't speak to her very often. Maybe it was because she looked1 and people didn't know how to come near to her. Tina usually broke the ice with people she met with a big “2.”

    In one class, I gave the students an assignment (作业) to recite(背诵) a poem. I only made the assignment worth a very small part of their total grade since I knew most of my students would not do it anyway. In the class, one by one each student 3 to correctly recite the poem. Finally, angry and half joking, I said that the next student who 4 recite the poem had to do three push-up (俯卧撑). To my surprise Tina was next. She used her walker to move to the front of the class. 5 she recited, she made a mistake. Before I could say a word, she 6 her walker and started doing push-ups. I wanted to say, “Tina, I was just joking!” But she7 , continued the poem and she finished the rest perfectly.

    When she finished, a student asked, “Tina, why did you do that? It's not an important assignment!” “Because I want to be like you guys! To be 8 .” Tina said.

    Silence fell on the whole room when another student cried out, “Tina, we're not normal! We are teenagers! We get in 9 all the time.” “I know,” Tina said as a big 10 spread across her face. The rest of the students laughed, too.

    Tina got only a few points that day, but she got the love and respect of her classmates. To her, that was worth a lot more than a grade.

    I was standing in line behind a woman in her 60s. When it was her turn to pay, the shop owner greeted 1 and asked how she was doing.

    The woman looked down, shook her head and said, “Not so 2, my husband just lost his job. I don't know how I can 3 the holidays.”

    Then she gave the shop owner the food stamps（食品券）for poor families.

    My 4 hurt, I wanted to help but didn't know 5. Should I offer to pay for her food, or ask for her husband's resume（简历）?

    6 I walked towards my car, I met the woman again. I remembered something in my wallet. It wasn't any money or an offer of a job, but7 it would help.

    "Excuse me," I said, "I heard what you said to the shop owner. It sounds like you're going through a really 8 time right now. I'm so sorry. I'd like to give you something."

    I 9 her the small card from my wallet.

    When the woman read the two 10 on the card, she began to cry. Through her tears, she said, "You have no idea how much this 11  to me."

    To tell the truth, her reply was a little 12. Having never done anything like this before, I didn't know what could happen. All I could say was, "Would it be OK to give you a hug?"

    After that, I walked into my car and began to13 too.

    The words on the card?

    "You Matter."

    A few weeks earlier, a friend gave me a similar 14 as encouragement for my work. When I read it, I really felt 15. So I ordered my own box of You Matter cards and started sharing them.

    Simon has a big shop in the center of the city. He tells all 1 salegirls to be friendly to the buyers and he gets 2 money.

    One day an old woman 3into the shop to buy a handbag. When she went out of the shop with the handbag, she left her wallet in it. A girl who worked 4 a shop assistant picked it up and found there 5 nearly five hundred dollars in it. She looked around and 6saw it. She put it into her pocket quickly. Soon the old woman came back to look for it7 she failed. She was sad and left. That evening Simon was told about it. He was so angry that he sent the girl away. Then he decided to get an honest man to take her place. Several young men came, but none of them could8  him.

    One morning 9 young man came to his office. He asked, "Do you smoke, sir?"

    "No, sir," answered the young man.

    "Do you drink?"

    "No, sir."

    Simon asked him the other questions, and the young man's answers made him happy. Before he made his decision, he asked him the last question, "You have no shortcoming, do you?"

    "No, I don't, sir. " said the young man. "I only like 10  lies."

    I grew up in a poor family where none of us kids believed in Santa Claus. My parents refused to let us believe in him. They couldn't provide us 1 expensive presents. And they didn't want us to think we weren't as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all kinds of toys under the tree that were 2 to be left by Santa Claus.

    That year when Christmas came, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took us three kids out into the night one after 3. I had a blanket (毛毯) with me, and when it was my turn, I offered to share it with Dad, but he said," No, thanks. "The 4 never troubled him. I sat next to Dad and we looked up at the sky.

    "Pick out your 5 star. It'll be your Christmas present," Dad said.

    "You can't give me a star! No one owns a star. "

    "That's right," Dad said. "No one else owns a star. You just have to claim(认领) it 6 anyone else does , just like Columbus claimed America. "

    I 7 it for a while. "I want that one," I said.

     "That's Venus(金星). It is a planet. It shines only from reflected (反射的) light. "I like it anyway," I said.

    "It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want. "

    That evening, we discussed outer space and I realized Dad was a man with much 8 of the stars and planets. We all 9 about the other kids who believed in Santa Claus and got nothing for Christmas but some cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all that they got are broken and long forgotten," Dad said. "You'll 10 have your stars."

    Ever since I was ten years old, I have decided to do everything on my own though I couldn't really understand them.

    When I was young , I always 1 the summer holiday with my grandfather at the mountain farm in Western Norway (挪威). 2 my grandfather had to work all day himself, he could spare some time for me.

    One day my grandfather said to me, "Come. I have a toy boat for you." I followed him to a workroom 3. However, nothing like that was there 4 a block of wood. "Is that the boat…?" I asked curiously. "No one can give you what you do for 5. With your own hands, you'll make it out of wood. Then it will be the 6 boat in your heart." Finally, I finished it with his help. Seeing the boat 7 in the lake Storvassdal, I felt 8 and thought everything nice around me.

    Good times don't last long. I had to 9 to America. Feeling sad, I hid my boat under a big rock at Storvassdal. Moreover, I didn't know that was the 10 time I saw my grandfather.

    Years later, I returned to the mountain farm with my parents and children. I searched for my boat, but 11. I was about to 12 when I touched something different under a big rock. Luckily, I found the boat which 13 grandfather and me. Holding it, I felt my grandfather was there and we 14 were together again.

    As time went by, each time I held the boat, I carved (刻) the year. My grandfather seemed 15. I went on the last trip to the farm with my grandchildren. High in the mountain, I hope they would understand the importance of the boat and its simple sign of self-reliance (自立).