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.

    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."

    Mr. Brown is my uncle. He is 321old. He works in a sports club. His job is to 2the students how to play basketball. He 3 far from the club. He has a car, but he doesn't 4 his car to work. Usually, he goes to work 5bike. He thinks it is good 6 and he can get to the club early when many buses and cars are in the street. Every morning, Mr. Brown gets up at 6:30. Then he takes a shower and has 7 good breakfast. At 7:40, he 8 his bike to the club. The bike ride usually9 an hour. "I never feel tired (累的). I think the ride is 10 and interesting," says Mr. Brown.

    Kevin sat at the desk in his study, pencil in hand. He had to write a story for his English class by Friday. "I don't know what to1," he complained to his dog, who was asleep at his feet. Kevin was talkative when speaking to his friends, yet he had2finding words he had to write.

    By bedtime Kevin had drawn a picture of his dog smiling. He had drawn a tree with its branches(树枝) blowing in a high wind. He had also written a3asking his friend to go to the movies on Saturday.4he had not written a single word of his story.

    On Wednesday, Mrs. Scott, Kevin's English teacher, asked the class to5the first draft of their stories. Kevin had to turn in the only work that he had—the page with his name, the6, and the note.

    Kevin wasn't7when Mrs Scott asked him to stay after class the next day. But he was surprised by what8said to him. "Kevin, this is a fantastic story—the dog, the movie, the tree in the9I can't wait to find out how they all fit together. I think you have the idea of a story there. Look at your note and the pictures and try to see10a story comes to you."

    That night Kevin sat at his desk, and this was what he wrote: "One Saturday Tom went to meet his friend at the11it looked as if it might rain, so Tom12his umbrella. Suddenly a big storm blew in. The noise of the wind13like Tom's dog Spotty. Spotty really hated storms and barked whenever he wanted to be let inside. Then Tom saw Spotty running after him down the busy street, barking. The sound was full of blame(责备). Tom felt14because he had left Spotty outside. He turned and headed home with Spotty. Tom let Spotty in the door just and the rain started to pour down."

    Kevin had a story after all. The last thing he did was to write his name15at the top of the page.