根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空白处的最佳答案,并把机读卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

    Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.

When he was 12, his parents   41   . He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed   42    him. No one showed kindness to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige.

One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped   43   , she dropped other bags. He came to help her.“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”She said kindly, smiling.

A special feeling came to him. These were   44    kind words he had ever heard. He watched her   45    she went far away, and he whistled（吹口哨）to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.

“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”he repeated the woman’s words. Then in a low

  46    he said to his dog,“You are a nice little dog!”Tige raised   47    ears as if（似乎）it understood.

“Uh! Even a dog likes it!”he said,“Well, Tige, I won’t say unkind words to you any more.”Tige waved its tail happily.

The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw   48    but a dirty boy. He washed his face   49  . Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed (震惊). From then on, he had a new life.

After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said,“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed (种子) of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness.   50   a great power it has!” If you show kindness to others, you will be an able man.

(   ) 41.A.dead                   B.dying                 C.died                   D.die

(   ) 42.A.at                       B.to                      C./                        D.of

(   ) 43.A.picking it up        B.picking up it        C.to pick up it        D.to pick it up

(   ) 44.A.the first               B.first                   C.the last               D.the first time

(   ) 45.A.until                    B.before                C.when                 D.while

(   ) 46.A.sound                 B.noise                  C.noisy                 D.voice

(   ) 47.A.it                        B.it’s                     C.one’s                 D.its

(   ) 48.A.something           B.nothing               C.anything             D.somebody

(   ) 49.A.carefully             B.careful               C.careless              D.carelessly

(   ) 50.A.What                  B.How                  C.It                       D.It seemed

以下是Sam对他最喜爱的一种名叫albatross的鸟，进行研究后所完成的报告中的一页，阅读有关信息，然后从A—E中选择正确的标题填入相应的板块中，完成71～75小题。