阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
    Bertha Ingram had been collecting them for more than 40 years. Every once in a while she would bring
home a new book. She'd sit with it on her leg, looking at the meaningless black marks without moving the
eyes and cry.
    She was not stupid. She simply had not had the   1   to learn to read. Her parents were sharecroppers in Florida in the 1920s. Sharecroppers did not own the   2    they farmed. Instead, they gave a part of their
crops(plants grown on farms for food)to the owner. It was quite a hard way to   3  , and both of Bertha's
parents worked hard in the fields. Often Bertha had to leave school to help. Before she was a teenager,
Bertha's schooling was   14   .
    Bertha Ingram didn't learn to read   5   her early married life,  6  . She wanted to, but she was always
too busy. She worked all day.
    Bertha Ingram's mind was sharp(敏锐地). 7  a housekeeper for other people, she had to memorize
telephone messages. She became a good cook too, but she had to  8  everything she did because there
was no cookbook she could read, and she couldn't write down what she had done.
    In 1978 Bertha Ingram became very ill with a stroke(中风). This illness   9  her to lose the use of one
arm and both legs. It also weakened her ability to speak.   10  she began to get better, she had a   11  
thought for the first time in her life. Because she couldn't work, she had the time to learn to read.
In her town there was a special program that taught adults to read, but Bertha Ingram was quite  12  .
Would people laugh at her? Would they  13 to teach her? It didn't happen that way. She had a teacher
who worked very hard with her.
    After the first day Ingram could   14   wait to get to the library. As she learned to read, Ingram got more and more confidence in herself. She became a reader at religious(宗教的)services, joined neighborhood
groups, and   15   at meetings in city hall. Finally she wrote a book telling about her life. At age 63, Bertha Ingram proved that learning never comes too late.
(     )1.A.chance      
(     )2.A.ground      
(     )3.A.make money  
(     )4.A.dropped      
(     )5.A.for          
(     )6.A.too          
(     )7.A.For          
(     )8.A.remember    
(     )9.A.brought      
(     )10.A.If          
(     )11.A.fa ir      
(     )12.A.nervous    
(     )13.A.like        
(     )14.A.hardly      
(     )15.A.arrived    
B.reason            
B.land              
B.earn their living  
B.on                
B.until              
B.as well            
B.As                
B.write              
B.caused            
B.Before            
B.right              
B.bored            
B.refuse            
B.never              
B.rested            
C.idea      
C.farm      
C.turn over  
C.over      
C.from      
C.either    
C.To        
C.know      
C.made      
C.As        
C.magic      
C.excited    
C.agree      
C.just      
C.appeared  
D.choice      
D.garden      
D.get them in
D.needed      
D.during      
D.also        
D.Like        
D.tell        
D.asked      
D.Till        
D.wonderful  
D.surprised  
D.stop        
D.only        
D.looked     

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(  )11.Jenny, a Beijinger, is crazy about Italy.She loves Italian food, Italian music, Italian novels and movies.She has an Italian pen pal, too.She dreams of visiting Rome one day.

(  )12.Mr.Smith is a kind old millionaire in Hangzhou.He retired from work two years ago and his wife has died of cancer.So he really wants to help people who have got cancer.

(  )13.Candy lives in Beijing.She loves music that is popular.She loves the Korea star called Rain and S.H.E from Taiwan.She has 85 yuan with her.

(  )14.Mary is a student in Xinghai Music College in Guangzhou.She loves music that she can dance to.She is good at dancing.She is free on Feb.15.

(  )15.Tommy, a college student in Guangzhou.He majors in fashion design.He is interested in European styles.

       A.Rain's day in Beijing.It's Korean pop star Rain's concert in Beijing.Price: 280-580 yuan.Time: Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013.

       B.Watch Hip­hop dancers from New York City perform in Guang­zhou Tianhe Stadium.Price:50-280 yuan.Time: Thursday-Saturday, Feb.14-16, 2013.

  C.Fund (基金)­raising run.Stretch your legs in this 8.8 km run and raise money for cancer research.Place: West Lake Park, Hangzhou.Time: Sunday, Feb.17, 2013.

       D.S.H.E's concert.The girls from S.H.E are coming to Beijing.They will perform their hot song I Don't Want to Grow up.Price: 80-300 yuan.Time: Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013.

       E.Shanghai Families.Hu Yang photographed the Shanghai fa­milies from workers to millionaires.Price: Free.Place: Shanghai Museum.Time: Saturday, Feb.16, 2013.

       F.Design from Finland.See the works of some young creative designers.Price: Free.Place: Guangzhou Art Museum.Time: Wednesday, Feb.13, 2013.

       G.Three Steps Over Heaven.For a culture evening—the Italian Embassy (大使馆) movie night.This film is about a teenager's romance that is set in Rome.Price: Free. Place: Italian Embassy.Time: Monday, Feb.11, 2013.

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