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.
A
For centuries, people around the world have invented many sports. It's no surprise that more and more unusual sports have appeared.
Human Towers
Every two years, there is a strange but fun competition—Human Towers in Spain The first prize goes to the highest tower. In 2015, a group of players from China and Spain set a world record: a nine-person-high human tower. In this exciting event, any visitor can hold out his arms with the local people and cheer together.
Cheese Rolling Championships
Cheese Rolling Championships take place in May every year in Britain. It is a traditional sport with the strongest smell in the world. Hundreds of people watch it on Coopers Hill. In the game, a cheese wheel of 3. 5 kg runs quickly down the hill. All the players run after it, trying to catch it without falling. However, most fail and get pains all over.
Outhouse Racing
Outhouse Racing has its own World Championship. It is on October lst and 2nd in Virginia, America. Every team tries to push or pull their homemade outhouse along the street to be the first. You can see all kinds of unusual outhouses in the street. Each must have four sides, a toilet seat and toilet paper.
B
When Sunday is over, the boring office may be the last place you think of, but the Apple Park in Cupertino, California may give you a different feeling.
Apple Park is like a huge landed UFO, which covers an area of 708,000 square metres. The round four-storey main building has hundreds of rooms. It covers an area of up to 260, 000 square metres. The outer walls are made up of huge pieces of glass. Many of them can be opened like the windows in your home, and the whole building can "breathe" like a human being. With this special ventilated system, it only needs to use air conditioners for three months of the year. There are 75,000 square metres of solar arrays on the roofs of the building. They provide electricity for the whole Park. The Apple Park building is a bright, comfortable and convenient place for all the 12,000 Apple people to work inside.
Apple Park is not only a fantastic working place, There is a huge dining hall for all the- Apple people to have meals together at once. There is a four-storey cafe, a sports center and a 1,000-seat theatre to offer relaxing services. There are 2,000 bicycle parking spaces, so people can ride their bikes to work. The company also provides 1,000 bikes for Apple people to get around all over Apple Park. In the middle of the round building is a huge park. Over 9,000 trees including many fruit trees are planted to make it a mini forest. It's an ideal place to make Apple people feel better and more energetic.
Apple Park is a gift for all the Apple people.
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C
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to believe or what to do. According to a report on the World Economic Forum (2016), critical thinking, creativity, and their practical application are widely accepted as the top three skills that young people need to possess in their future career.
A good critical thinker usually takes the following steps before he dicides what to do. Whenever he needs to do something, he would, first of all, reason. He checks why he needs to do it and whether he really needs to do it. Then, analyze. He tries to find out what it really is and the best way to do it. After that, evaluate. He makes sure whether he is able to do it and how to do it well. Finally, he makes the decision and takes action. Take the "Double 11" (a popular online shopping day in China) as an example. A few days before it, he checks carefully what he needs and whether he really needs them, and makes a shopping list. He goes to the online shops to compare the quality and the prices of the things that he is going to buy. He compares the shops that sell these things.
Then he checks whether he can afford them and in which shops he is going to buy them. Although it takes him some time to make the decisions, he would not regret after the shopping.
Then what would happen if he didn't think critically before he made the decisions? After the crazy "Double 11", there were usually a lot of complaints on the Internet. There were regrets about buying more things than they needed. There were complaints about the poor quality and the prices of the things they bought. There were also complaints because they received wrong things or simply received nothing. There were all kinds of regrets and complaints. Why so? They had not thought critically before they made the decisions.
Critical thinking helps you make wiser decisions. It helps you avoid wasting time, money and so on. Therefore, do look before you leap.
D
Stuffy Pete sat down on a bench in the New York City Park. It was the third bench to the left as you enter the park from the east.
Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years, an Old Gentleman had come to find Stuffy there at one in the afternoon. He led Stuffy to a restaurant and watched him eat a big dinner. He was trying to make it a tradition.
Stuffy had just come from a dinner so big that he had almost no power to move. How he expected that gentleman would not come this year! Then his eyes grew wider and his breath stopped.
The Old Gendeman was thin and tall, dressed all in black. He wore eye-glasses. His hair was whiter and thinner than it was last year. His legs did not seem as strong as they had seemed the year before, but he moved, straight and proud, to Stuffy and toward the tradition that he was building.
"I am glad to see everything's fine with you. For that blessing you and I can give thanks on this day of thanksgiving. If you will come with me, my man, I will give you a dinner that will surely make your body feel as thankful as your mind," said the gentleman. The words themselves were almost a tradition
Stuffy was very full, but he understood that his desire for food on Thanksgiving Day was not his own. It belonged to this kind gentlemam.
The gentleman led Stuffy to the restaurant and to the same table where they had always gone. He sat at the table, watching.
The turkey and all the other food were gone almost as quickly as they appeared Stuffy saw the look of happiness on the gentleman's face. He continued to eat to keep it there.
In an hour the battle was finished.
"Thank you for my Thanksgiving dinner," Stuffy stood up heavily.
They said goodbye, as they did each year, at the door.
Stuffy went around the first corner, stood for one minute, and fell. He was picked up and taken to a hospital.
An hour later , the Old Gentleman was brought to the same hospital.
"That nice old gentleman over there," a doctor was talking to another. "Do you know what's wrong with him? He's almost dead for the need of food. A very proud old man, I think, He told me he hadn't eaten anything for three days."
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Why are some animals pets and others lunch?
In some countries, dogs and cats are commonly considered as pets, while chickens, ducks, and (猪) are food. However, in some other countries dogs and cats are food, and the food animals are pets.
People (分开,将……分成) animals into several kinds to their own needs. For example, you may have(朋友) who keep rabbits as pets. Some people (烹饪) rabbits as dishes. People treat a rabbit as a pet because it (带来) them pleasure. They eat it, for they think it is a kind of meat. They kill it because they believe it is (有害的) to plants or people.
People also treat animals differently based on their own cultures. Most of us have dogs as pets. Dogs live in our house, like a (成员) of the family. However, in some cultures, dogs are considered unclean. People（几乎不）ever keep them as pets. In some parts of Southeast Asia, dogs are on the menu. （百万）of dogs are killed every year.
What's （正确的）and wrong in the way we treat animals?
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