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.

    A GREAT basketball player will retire (退役) this week. His name is Kobe Bryant.

    Bryant, 1for the Los Angeles Lakers, a team in the NBA. He has been playing with the Lakers for 20 years. But now he is leaving because of2and injuries (伤).

    “My heart can take it, my mind can handle (处理) it,3 my body knows it's time to say goodbye,” he4in his poem (诗) Dear Basketball.

    Bryant is one of the greatest5in NBA. He has won five NBA championships (冠军) and two Olympic gold medals. He also has scored the third largest number of points in NBA history, even6than Michael Jordan.

    Bryant has a real love7basketball. He often starts to practice as8 as 5 am. Everybody knows how hard he works.

    Soon Bryant9 have some time to rest. But no matter (不管如何) what he does next, he said his love for basketball will10change.

    At eight o' clock last Sunday morning, I was sitting on the No. 101 bus to go to the zoo when I suddenly saw an old man lying on the side of the street. I told the driver 1 it. The driver stopped the bus. All the passengers (乘客) got off quickly to see 2 happened. A woman next to the old man was shouting for 3 She told us that a car just now hit the old man, 4 it didn't stop.

    The driver helped the old man without 5  He had to take the old man to the 6 or the old man might be in great danger. He asked 7 to wait for the next bus. I even helped the driver move the old man into the 8 

    Thanks to (多亏) the driver, the 9 could save the old man in time. When the old man's son thanked the driver, he told him what I 10 The old man's son wrote a thank-you letter to our school. My teacher praised (表扬) me. I said ! only did what I should do.

    Do you have any interests in your childhood? In my seventh grade, I developed a/an 1 in solving a Rubik's Cube. I started by asking my brother to teach me and he asked me to solve a blue cross on a cube by myself.

    I spent around 20 minutes mixing the cube and finally got that little blue cross on the top. 2, I jumped up from the chair and raced into my brother's bedroom. After handing the cube to him, to my surprise, he mixed the perfect blue cross up. Making my work completely disappear.

    "Do it again," he 3 it back to me.

    "No, I won't." I was angry stepping out of his room.

    A few weeks later, my brother wasn't at home. "I'm going to 4 how to do this without him!" I promised myself. I spent the rest of my night watching a guy on YouTube teach me to solve the first few steps. I mastered those steps.

    The next day, I spent the whole school day secretly5 what I had learned the night before. When I made my way to my music class, I tried to find some spare time taking out the cube again and solving what I knew. Noah, my classmate, and also one of my best friends later, laughed at me.

    "Do you know how?" I sneered（讥笑）.

    "Actually yeah, let me see it. My fastest solving 6 is 15 seconds," he noted as he began solving the cube. It took him about 25 seconds to finish it.

    "Okay, that was cool." I started solving the cube again. I didn't know at that time this boy would be my inspiration for cube solving. He taught me each step, each day, and when I 7, he'd remind(提醒) me how to do it. He was the best friend I'd ever had.

    Sadly he's no longer with us now, but the memories of solving cubes together will be there forever. It was this boy who helped me with cube solving. It takes me around a minute to solve a Rubik's Cube. I am 8 that I can do something not many people can. Thank you, Noah.

The clever monkey

    Once upon a time, there was a clever monkey. He lived on a beautiful island, in an apple tree.

    One day, a crocodile(鳄鱼)swam to the island. "I'm 1"he said. So, the monkey threw a red apple to the crocodile. The crocodile ate it 2.

    The next day, the crocodile came back. "Please, may I have two apples?" he asked. He ate one and gave one to his 3.

    The crocodile went to see the monkey every day. He wanted to be 4 just like the monkey. The crocodile's wife had an idea. "Why don't you5his heart? Then you'll be clever, just like him!"

    The next day, he said to the monkey, 'To thank you for the6, please come to my house and have lunch with me together. But when the monkey 7, the crocodile said, "I want to eat your heart, so I can be as clever as you!"

    The clever monkey thought quickly and said, "But my 8 isn't here. It's on the island."

    They all 9 to the island. "Wait here. And I will get my heart." said the monkey.

    The monkey quickly 10the tree and sat at the top. "Oh, Crocodile, you are so greedy(贪婪地). Of course, you can't have my heart. And now, you can't have my apples!" And the clever monkey laughed and laughed.

    A young man was a thief. He stole(盗窃) something valuable1a rich man. Some policemen2him and put him into prison. Before he went into prison, he wanted to have a talk with his3.

    His mother went to the police station to visit her son. He said to his mother, I have something to4you, Mum. Bring your5near me. When she did that, he nearly bit off her ear. The policemen were6and they asked him7he did that.

    "I did that because I wanted to punish her," he said. "When I was young, I began stealing small things. I brought them home to her. She never punished8. She always laughed and said, 'You are so lucky. Nobody9you steal them.' It is because of her that I am here today."

    10are the first teacher for children. They must teach their children how to tell right from wrong.