阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Billy, a hard – working student, is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part – time job that  ________  him up every morning at five o’clock, when most people are still   ________   asleep. He is a newspaper boy.
Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the   ________  where the newspapers always are. The newspapers were  ________to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to ________them.
In the winter it is still dark  ________   he gets up every day, but during the rest of the year it is  ________  . Billy must send the newspapers to the houses of people on his ________ in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch (门廊) where it will be  ________  from wind and rain or snow. Sometimes his customers give him tips,  ________ him very excited.
Billy earns about $ 70 per month through hard  ________ , and he is saving some of the money to go to  ________  where he has always been longing to go. Besides that, he  ________  the rest of the earnings on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect the ________  at night since many of the people work during the day. That is when he is  ________  so that he is full of excitement. Luckily, he gets ________ supported by his family. Sometimes, when Billy is sick, his brother offers to deliver the newspapers for him. Once, his father was too  ________  to help him.
Billy has seventy customers now, but he doesn’t feel  ________  about the number.
He dreams that he will get  ________  customers as possible some day.  ________ , he might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.

A．wakes B．takes C．gets D．picks

A．sound B．falling C．fall D．soundly

A．corner B．street C．room D．department

A．given B．addressed C．handed D．delivered

A．carry B．bring C．send D．load

A．at which B．while C．that D．when

A．short B．black C．light D．long

A．road B．way C．route D．path

A．protected B．stopped C．kept D．prevented

A．making B．letting C．leading D．causing

A．attempt B．job C．work D．struggle

A．abroad B．company C．college D．hospital

A．costs B．spends C．pays D．uses

A．paper B．money C．newspapers D．records

A．depressed B．energetic C．fulfilled D．moved

A．very B．great C．greatly D．a lot of

A．likely B．reluctant C．tired D．willing

A．satisfying B．pleasant C．contented D．happy

A．many more B．as much C．as many D．much more

A．If that B．If so C．Besides D．What’s more