通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

    Do you have a pen friend? I have a pen friend. Do you want to know something about him? Now let me 1  you. His name is Eric and he comes from 2. He is 22 years old. He's a driver and 3 at a train station. He's a handsome man  4 blond hair and blue eyes. He has  5 round face. His favorite color is 6, so he usually wears white clothes. Joe gets up early in the morning and then 7 for half an hour. He thinks running can help him to keep  8. He is good at playing   9 and he is in a soccer club. He goes there every Sunday.  

    He invited (邀请) me to 10 his country, Australia. I'm going there next month. And I think I'll have a good time there.

    There is a holiday next week and I can't decide what to do. I have a lot of work to do 1 and this would be a good chance(机会) to do it. But I don't like 2 the holiday in this way. I can work at home all the rest of the year. Last year I went north to the mountains. 3 there was beautiful, but it is too cold this time of year. And it's really 4 far to go for a short holiday. I think     5 this isn't a good time to go to the mountains. But I 6 to go somewhere else.

    Perhaps this would be a good chance to go to the beach(海滨). I like to go for a walk along the seashore 7 the warm sunshine and watch the water. It's only eight miles and I can get there 8 about two hours. After thinking it 9, I am sure that this is a     10 time for the seashore than the mountains. I think I can enjoy myself there.

    Erquan Yingyue was written 1 Abing, a folk musician who was born in the city of Wuxi in 1893. His mother died 2he was very young. Abing's father taught him to play many musical instruments, 3 the drums, dizi and erhu, and by age 17, Abing had been known 4his musical ability. However, after his father died, Abing's life grew 5 He was very poor. Not only that, he developed a6 illness and became blind. For several years, he had no home. He lived on the streets and played music to make money. Even after Abing got 7and had a home again, he continued to sing and play on the streets. He 8in this way for many years.

    Abing played music that could touch the 9of people. When we listen to his music, we can sense both the beauty and sadness in it. It makes us think about the wounds and pain that we experienced in the past. By the end of his life, he could 10 over 600 pieces of music. He wrote many of them himself. It is a pity that only six pieces of music in total were recorded for the future world to hear, but his popularity continues to this day.

    My parents used to tell me how important the school was for me, but I didn't think so. I didn't pay attention to it. What I cared most was to 1 with my friends. But one thing let me finally 2 what my parents meant.

    One day, when I walked past a mobile phone store, I saw an advertisement on its door. It was hiring(雇佣）new 3 ! "Sir, are you hiring people?" I went into the shop and asked." Yes, but you can't be the man who we 4 ," the manager answered. He looked at me for a few minutes from head to 5 ."Do you have a high school diploma(文凭)? " he asked, "Or do you have any work 6 ?”

    I felt so ashamed and frustrated that I didn't know what to say, so I just turned around and left.

    I could not fall asleep that night, and I thought a lot about my 7 . "I must go to school because I can't do anything without a good 8 , "I said to myself silently. I never went back to the store again 9 I finished my study and got a diploma.

    Everything looked the same when I returned to the 10 the same people and the same design. However, 11 with last time, I had more confidence this time. So it was a great chance for me.

    I 12 my diploma to the manager who once refused me. He looked at 13 fora while and then said to me," Great, you are in."

    Now I am still working in the same store. With this experience, I always advise teenagers to 14 school. Education helps you have a bright future. Now I am not worried about my future because I'm still keep 15  in my free time. Education brings my future, doesn't it?

    Once there was a rich woman. She lived in a large and beautiful house but she felt bored about her life. One day, she asked her helper, "What is the most 1 thing?" The helper told her," The beautiful thing you are looking for is not here. You must look for it by 2. What about a tour?

    The woman thought it was such a 3 idea that she started the next day. When she was top of the hill 4 her house. She looked down and suddenly something cried in her heart." 5 did I never find my house so beautiful?"

    The woman 6 one year traveling. She saw beauty on the farm, in the forest and 7 in the stars twinkling(闪烁)at night. But what was the most beautiful thing? She 8. The question. Suddenly, the woman understood beauty was 9. She didn't find it because she didn't enjoy it.

    She found the most beautiful thing 10. It was the world!