阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

     For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He ____ every subject in eighth grade. He didn’t do ____ in sports. Although he played for the school’s golf team, he lost ____ only important match of the season.

Sparky was a loser. He and all   ____ classmates...everyone knew it. Sparky never asked a classmate ____ out in high school. He was too afraid ____ being refused.

     However, one thing was important to Sparky—drawing. He was proud of his artwork but no one else praised it. In his senior year of high school, he sent some cartoons to the editors of the Yearbook ____ the cartoons were not accepted for the first time, Sparky was ____ confident about his ability that he decided to become an artist.

     After ____ high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send ____ works of art. Sparky spent a great deal of time ____ them. Finally the reply came from Disney Studios. He had been refused ____ time.

     So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography（自传）in cartoons. He described his childhood—a little boy loser. The cartoon character would soon become ____ worldwide. For Sparky, the boy was Charles Schulz who had little success in school and whose work ____ again and again. He never thought that he ____ create the little cartoon character—Charlie Brown.

Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. As a small child, she was very happy and laughed all the time. When she was 6, her life completely changed. She was badly ill and had to lie in bed for nine months. After that, she had problems walking.

When Frida was 15, she entered a famous school. There she was influenced by the modern changes in Mexico. She cut her hair short like a boy. She was very interested in science and decided to become a doctor.

Then, in September 1925, Frida had an accident. Her right leg was broken, and for the rest of her life she had pain every day. She had to give up her plans to become a doctor. While lying in bed after the accident, Frida began to read books. Most of them were about art. Her father was a painter and photographer, and he encouraged her interest in art. One year later, she completed her first painting: a portrait(肖像) of herself.

Later, Frida painted over 200 pictures. Most of them were about her health and her dreams. She also used many bright colors and symbols from Mexican culture. At the age of 47, Frida died, but her paintings are still popular among people.

Lang Lang, the world famous Chinese pianist, has just received a special birthday gift. The gift is a book called My 30 Years with Lang Lang written by his father Lang Guoren. The book provides a record of their years together.

With more than 100 family photos, the book is a vivid (鲜活的) story of love and success. It is hoped that the book will inspire (激励) and inform those parents who face challenges raising and educating their children.

LangLang has said that the book means a lot of him. He was glad and surprised upon receiving the gift but he still had a lot to say.

“I don’t know how to describe the true feeling of my heart. Yes, I’m excited to have this book while at the same time I feel a little bit guilty (内疚的). I know my father has done a lot for me over the past 30 years. His love for me is like a complex melody (复杂的旋律), full of different emotions. My parents have provided me with the most unforgettable and important 30 years of my life.”

Lang Guoren gave up his job as a policeman in Liaoning Province, northeastern China, to accompany his son to learn music in Beijing when Lang Lang was only 9 years old. Later, when LangLang was 15, Lang Guoren sold all his valuable things so that the could take his son to Philadelphia, in America, for further study.

During all the hard years of training, Lang Guoren has been a strict father. He asked LangLang to practise playing his piano for at least 7 hours a day. Lang Guoren’s love and hard work finally paid off. Having won many prizes in different international piano contests, Lang Lang is now regarded as a Chinese musical legend (传奇).

When we look at art, we expect to find some deep meaning left by the creator, a description about the world, or what it means to be human. However, for Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), it was the very act of looking that became the creation. In fact, Morandi once said, “The feelings that the world awakens in us are very difficult to express or are perhaps inexpressible with words, because they are decided by forms, colors, space and light.”

Not only did Morandi spend his life in and around his hometown of Bologna, Italy, but he seldom even left his office. He chose to paint nearby landscapes, and more famously, the same objects—cups, bottles, vases, bowls—over and over again. The result is that he separated everyday things from their use and purpose, leading us to the thought of the color and shape.

Although he focused on common things, Morandi’s paintings took us to a new world of what a painting and, more specifically, a still life could be. Also known as “advanced gray”, Morandi colors are quiet, and deeply self-discovery, further showing the artist’s creative belief. It is a color palette (调色盘) that we’re seeing more and more, in everything from fashion clothes to well-known branding.

Morandi’s first exhibition in China which opened at Beijing’s M WOODS Gallery in the 798 Art Zone, from last December to April 5 — said of Morandi’s use of color, “I think the colors really take the type of emotion and sense from people. Morandi expressed his advice in his works: Keep calm and carry on.”