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.

    One day a small boy was walking along the street in London. His name was Tom. It was a cold winter day in 1900.1he could have no breakfast 2lunch. He wanted to buy bread, but he didn't3any money.

    His father4when he was very young. His mother was often very ill, so she could not5Tom and his brother, Mike.6had to work to help their 7 mother.

    He was small but his dream was very big. His wish was8 a great man in the world of film. So he worked very hard9 singing and dancing. Then,a man came to him and asked,"10 for my film?" "Cetrainly." He answered. And he did his11 in it. Many people asid,"We have never seen 12interesting film."

    Thirty years 13 ,this same boy was 14 the most famous people in the world. He made many good films. A lot of people liked 15 .

    Souanis Kim was an archery (射箭) teacher in a sports school and had trained many outstanding archers. So many parents sent their children to 1 One morning, Souanis Kim took the students to a tall tree for2. He walked to the tree about 20 meters ahead, put a toy bird on the trunk and said, "The task is to shoot the toy bird 3.

    The students stood in a line quickly. The first one was Sandy. He walked a few steps 4 , put the arrow on the string (弦), drew the bow (弓 ) and aimed at the toy bird.

    "What's 5 the bird?" asked Souanis Kim suddenly.

    "The blue sky," Sandy answered.

    Souanis Kim smiled. He asked Sandy to stand aside. The students 6 what the teacher's meaning was, but none of them asked.

    The 7was Keston. Like Sandy, he walked up. Just as he was ready to shoot the arrow, Souanis Kim asked him the 8question.

    "I see the trunk and the leaves," answered Keston. Souanis Kim 9 and asked Keston to stand aside, too.

    The third one was Jobes. Just 10 he was drawing the bow, Souarus Kim asked, "What's over the bird, Jobes?" Jobes stared at the toy bird and said, "I have seen 11but the toy bird."

    "Great!" said Souanis Kim. Then he shouted,"12!" Jobes shot the arrow and the toy bird fell.

    The students 13 with one voice. Souanis Kim looked at the 14 students and said seriously, "Remember: When an archer is showing, he must have only the 15 but nothing else."

    I try to be a good father. Give my kids love. Work nights to pay for their schooling. But1with Michael Hoyt, I am nothing.

    This love2began in Winchester, 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled (勒住) by the umbilical cord (脐带) during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to3his limbs (四肢).

    "He'll be a vegetable the4of his life," Doctors told Michael and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.

    But the Hoyts weren't5it. Because they noticed that Rick's

6followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. But doctors told the parents that there was7going on in their son's brain.

    "Tell him a joke," Michael said to the doctors. They did and Rick8. Actually a lot was going on in his brain.

    Equipped(装备) with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor (光标)9the side of his head, Rick was10able to communicate. What is his first word? "Run!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed (瘫痪) in a(n)11and the school organized a charity run (慈善跑) for him, Rick typed, "Dad, I want to do that."

    Yeah, right. How was Michael, a man who never ran more than a mile12going to push his son five miles?13he tried. Surprisingly, that day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't14anymore!"

    And that sentence also changed Michael 's life. He wanted to give Rick that feeling as15as he could. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times in triathlon (铁人三项).

    "No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Strongest Dad in the World."

    Washington was the first president of the United States. He was very 1even when he was still a 12-year-old boy.

    Once a thief2some money from Uncle Post, Washington's neighbor. The door of the house was not broken, and things in the room were in good order. Washington 3that the thief must have been one of the villagers.

    That evening at the villagers' meeting he said, "We don't know who stole the money4.

    God does. God sends his wasp(黄蜂)to tell good from5Every night the wasp flies6us but few people notice it. "Then, all of a sudden Washington waved his band and cried out, "Look！The wasp has landed on the thief's7It is going to sting(叮咬)!"

    Everybody turned to 8the thief. But soon the noise died down. All eyes were 9on a man who was trying hard to drive the "Wasp" off his hat.

"Now we know10stole the money, "Washington said with a smile.