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.

    As a new teacher at Doull Primary School in Denver, Kyle Schwartz thought of a simple way to get to know her third graders, most of whom came from 1 families. She asked them to complete the 2 “I wish my teacher knew…" and share something about themselves.

    Their 3answers gave the teacher a chance to understand her students' difficulties. "I wish my teacher knew I have no pencils to do my homework," 4 one child. "I wish my teacher knew sometimes my reading homework is not signed（签名）, because my mom is not 5 a lot,” wrote another. Some shared hope for the 6. " I wish my teacher knew that I want to go to college."

    "Some notes are really heartbreaking," Schwartz tells ABC News. "I care 7 about each of my students and I don't want them to be poor forever." She explains, " I hoped to know 8I could better support them. So I 9 to let them tell me what I needed to know. That was why I created the fill-in-the-blank exercise."

    10 the third graders were allowed to answer anonymously（匿名）, most wanted to include names. And some were even excited to read their notes out loud. 11 one shy girl who bravely said that she was lonely. "After she told the class, "I don't have friends to 12 me, I was worried what they would do." Schwartz tells Us Weekly. "However, I felt encouraged to see how much support the other kids offered 13. They invited her to play at break and sit with them at lunch. You see, 14 have an unusual ability to express empathy（同情）."

    "The results have been 15," says Schwartz. "It speaks to the importance of giving people a voice and really listening to them."

阅读下列短文，掌握大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    Johnnie  Martin was born in a worker's family. His parents lived a simple life, saving money for the day when they could send him to a good university. They had dreamed that their son could get a good1and live a better life. However, to Johnnie, school lessons seemed like a wall that was impossible to go through.

    One day when he was in Grade 11, Johnnie went2school psychologist's  office to ask for help.

    "Johnnie, I've been studying your marks of all the tests at school. I've made a 3study of them," said the psychologist.

    "I've been trying hard." Johnnie was about to4.

    The psychologist put his hand on the boy's shoulder, "People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie. There are painters who were5 able to learn maths, and engineers who can't sing on key. Some day you will find6you are good at, and when you do, you will make your parents and all of us very7you."

    Johnnie didn't go to university. He found a job working in the gardens around the town. Soon 8amazing happened. His customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called "green thumb". The plants he9grew, and the roses blossomed. People started to accept his 10for gardening, because he had an eye for colour and light.

    One day while he was downtown, he happened to11an unused dirty land behind the city hall. He volunteered to make it into a garden. That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission , he started the work, 12he couldn't afford all the tools or the plants that were13for it. People gave him young trees. rose-bushes, benches and many other things. Before long, it had become a beautiful little14.

    Today Johnnie is the head of the business in gardening. Wherever he and his men go, they 15beauty before the eyes of people.

    My uncle works in a shop. It's near an English1. Every day the students come to 2 things. In the morning，my uncle gets up3 six o'clock and after breakfast he 4 his bike to the shop. He  5 there at about ten to seven. The shop 6 at seven o'clock. The shop sells(卖) things 7 food and drink. It has school things, too. So there 8 a lot of people in the shop 9 morning to evening. My uncle is very busy. He is friendly（友好的） to the students and the students like 10 very much.

    The best experience of my life was when we went to Stonehenge. We went there on a group tour.

    When I saw Stonehenge, my first 1 was that it was huge. You know, Stonehenge is about 5,000 years old. I 2how the ancient people moved these huge pieces of stone.

    After we parked at the Stonehenge parking lot, our guide Nick took us to a 3shop. There my mum got a nice painting of Stonehenge. After we left the gift shop, we went to Stonehenge 4 the tunnel.

    That was a privilege（优惠待遇）at Stonehenge5we were able to go right up to the stones and touch them. Usually visitors 6 get really close and touch the stones. At Stonehenge we walked around the circle and then 7 the ceremonial(仪式的）centre. There we were given half a(n)8 to look around and explore.

    930 minutes we got ready to leave. It was 10that we had to leave Stonehenge. Hopefully one day I'll go back.

    James Parker is a table tennis player. He can't walk, but he can move very fast in his wheelchair, and he's training to go much 1.

    James was in a bad car accident at the age of six. Now he 2 use his legs, and he has to use a wheelchair. James "drives" the chair 3 his arms. He plays video games, 4 he also plays basketball with his brothers.

    But his favorite 5 is at the table tennis table. James practices every day for an hour after school. "I want to 6 a gold medal," he says. "I'm sure I can do it. And I want other kids like me and think that 7 can win, too."

    James' house has a special ramp so that he can go in and out of the house easily. At Adams High School in Champaign, Illinois, James is a(n) 8 student. All the teachers and students like him. He works hard, 9 he has to sit at the back of the classroom because of his chair. He doesn't 10 that at all. "I like it back there," he says.