阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项.

　　How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups, and old people wishing they were 1 again. Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age 2 him without wasting his time in useless 3 .

　　Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities (责任) to make life 4 . If a child has good parents, he is 5 , looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is 6 that he will ever again in his life be 7 so much without having to do anything in return. 8 , life is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their 9 for older people because they are too 10 . But a child has his 11 , he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is 12 being told not to do something, or being 13 for what he has wrongly done.

　　When a young man 14 to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to 15 his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live 16 . If he spends most of his time playing about in the ways that he used to as a child, he will 17 hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society 18 he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, 19 , he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of 20 for himself his position in society.

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　　Jack London is a famous American writer. His best 1 book is “The Call of the Wild” the story of an adventure of a large dog in the frozen north.

　　Jack was born 2 January 12, 1876, in San Francisco California. His family was very poor, and Jack had to leave school 3 money. He worked hard 4 many different jobs. Later, he returned to school but he didn't stay. He wrote “Life and pocketbook were both too short. ” In 1897, he went to Alaska 5 gold, instead, he found ideas there for his books and stories. He returned 6 and started to write. His writing were 7 and he became rich and famous 8 his twenties. However, Jack was not a happy man. In poor 9 he 10 his own life in 1916. He then was only 40 years old.

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　　A man and his wife had a small restaurant near the station. The restaurant often stayed 1 until midnight, because people came to drink and have meals while they were waiting for trains.

At two o'clock one morning, a farmer was still sitting at 2 there. He was asleep. The wife of the owner of the restaurant was very 3 and wanted to go to bed. She looked at the farmer several times and waited for him to wake and go, but each time she looked, the farmer was 4 there sleeping, then at last she went to her husband and 5 to him, “You 6 him six times now, but why haven't you 7 him away? It's very late.”“Oh, no, I don't want to send him away,” answered her husband 8 a smile. “You see, whenever I wake him 9 , he asks for his bill, he 10

it and then goes to sleep again.”

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　　A woman carried a sick baby in one arm to see a doctor, 1 the other child 2 the hand.

　　 3 the doctor gave her a prescription (处方) , she went to the drugstore. The druggist 4 her the pill, saying, “Take the 5 three times a day. The big one, two 6 ; the small one, three. ”

　　The 7 woman poured a glass of water, and asked the big child to take two pills, 8 she gave the small baby three pills.

　　She said to herself, “It's 9 to have one child treated, 10 two children take the medicine. ”

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　　Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective stories for magazines.

　　One evening he could not find 1 for a story. He sat with his typewriter in 2 of him, but he had 3 ideas. 4 he decided to go to the cinema.

　　When he came back, he found that he had had a visitor. Someone had 5 into his house. The man had had a drink, smoked several of Tom's cigarettes and had read his story.

　　The visitor 6 Tom a note:

　　I have read your story and I don't think much of it. Please read my 7 and then you can 8 it. By the way, I'm a burglar (盗贼). I am not going to steal anything tonight. But if you become a successful writer, I will 9 .

　　Tom read the note, then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He is still not a successful writer, and he is 10 for his burglar to return. Before he goes out in the evening, he always leaves a half-finished story near his typewriter.

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　　Mr Lewis was a dance teacher. He was a good man and always had lots of students 1 used to come to his classes 2 every week. One year he 3 to a new town, and was soon teaching 4 students in the dance school there, 5 afterward he decided to go to a big city 6 he would have more work to do.

　　When one of the ladies who regularly came to his 7 heard that he was leaving, she said to him, “The teacher who takes your place 8 be as good as you are. ”

　　Mr Lewis was happy when he 9 this, but he said, “Oh, no. I'm sure he'll be as 10 as I am or even better. ”

　　The lady said, “No. Five teachers have come and gone while I've been here, and each new one was worse than the last. ”

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　　New York, London, Paris and other big cities are exciting places 1 .There are many interesting things to see and to do. You can go to 2 kinds of museums, plays and films. You can also go shopping to 3 things from all over the world.

　　But there are serious problems in big cities, 4 .The cost of living is 5 ,and there are too many people in some places of the big cities. Every year many people move to the cities because they can 6 find work there, to study at good schools, and to receive good medical care (医疗保健). But 7 these people cannot find work or a good place to live in. Also, too many people in a small 8 make it hard to keep the cities 9 and clean.

　　Some people enjoy living in big cities, others do not. 10 people move to a big city, they should think about the problems of living there.

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　　Miss Jane 1 physics in a New York school. Last month she 2 to one of her class about sound, “Now I 3 a brother in Los Angeles (洛杉矶) . If I was calling him 4 the phone, and at 5 same time you were 75 feet away 6 to me across the street, which of you would hear 7 I said earlier, my brother or you, for what reason?”

　　John answered, “Your brother, Miss Jane, because electricity (电) travels 8 than sound waves.” “That's very good,” Miss Jane said.

　　“I don't agree,” said Mary. “Your brother would hear you 9 because it's 10 eleven o'clock here, and it's eight o'clock in Los Angeles. ”

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　　A letter 1 a Dutch stamp on the envelope arrived at 43 Tudor Road, the home of Mr and Mrs Stuart the other day. It was addressed to Rose Stuart, their 11-year-old daughter. When she opened it, she had a surprise.

　　When Rose was 2 holiday at Deal in August, she wrote her name and address on a piece of paper, 3 the request “Please write to me”, put the paper in a bottle and threw it into the sea.

　　On November 15, the bottle was picked up from the shore near a village in Holland, by a 14-year-old-school boy. He opened it, found Rose's 4 and at once 5 it.

　　He told Rose in good English that his village had about 2, 500 people. “I'm learning English, but I don't know many words yet. ” He hoped Rose 6 to him and told her that he had many books, 7 were about the sea. With the letter he sent some picture postcards with views of the local church and 8 places in the district.

　　Rose, a pupil of Oxford Country Grammar Girls' School, is delighted to have a pen-friend in Holland. She is 9 and delighted to know that her bottle managed 10 across the Channel, in spite of the stormy weather through which it must have passed with its message on its three-month voyage.

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　　I took a wonderful trip with my family when I was ten years old. I remember it 1 . My aunt, uncle and cousins lived 2 a little farm in the country outside Rome and they invited us to visit them. These cousins are the same cousins who live in Miami now. Our trip to visit them a long time ago was very different 3 our recent trip to Miami.

　　It was a Saturday morning when we left home: . We got up early that morning before the sun 4 .We were sleepy (困倦) , but we were 5 and ate breakfast quickly. We left home at 5:30 in order to get an early 6 . It took us three hours 7　　there in my father's old car. When we drove up to the house, everyone ran out to greet (问候) us.

　　We stayed for two days and had a wonderful time. We played outside all day and helped uncle feed (喂养) the chickens. He taught us 8 wine (酒) . At night, we listened to the grownups (成年人) 9 stories about their childhood.

　　When it was time to leave, we were very sad . They begged us to stay longer, but we had to leave. My father had to go to work the next day. As I look back, that trip was a long long time ago.

　　My aunt and uncle 10 , my cousins are living in Miami. The world is different now.

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