题目内容：

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ______ to do this is by developing my own helping rituals（习惯）. These little acts of ______ are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and ______.

We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is ______ nature.One of the ______ to the beauty is the litter that some people throw out of their windows as they are ______ on the rural roads. One of the few ______ to living in the rural areas is that public services, such as litter collection, are less ______ han they are closer to the city.

A helping ritual that I practice ______ with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding area. We’ve become so accustomed to doing this that my ______ will often say to me in pleasant voices, "There's some litter, Daddy, ______ the car!" And if we have______, we will often  pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we actually ______ it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a (n) ______ icking up litter close to where we live. The man whom I didn’t know smiled at me and said, "I ______ saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good idea."

Picking up litter is only ______ of an endless supply of possible helping rituals. You might like holding a door open for people, visiting and ______ lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or shoveling snow off someone else’s driveway. Think of something that seems effortless ______ helpful. It’s worthwhile, personally rewarding, and sets a good example. Your acts of kindness can ______ others to do the same things. And everyone ______ from this.

1.A. things         B. activities       C. ways            D. places

2.A. kindness      B. education       C. instruction      D. amusement

3.A. polite        B. curious          C. challenging      D. helpful

4.A. dirty          B. beautiful      C. different      D. simple

5.A. explanations B. answers         C. changes         D. weaknesses

6.A. running      B. walking         C. driving         D. jumping

7.A. reasons      B. disadvantages    C. principles       D. Days

8.A. available      B. important      C. satisfying       D. dangerous

9.A. generally      B. casually         C. regularly       D. deliberately

10.A. friends       B. parents          C. colleagues       D. Children

11.A. stop        B. start           C. repair          D. speed

12.A. faith         B. time            C. money            D. material

13.A. enjoy       B. need             C. see             D. get

14.A. cleaner     B. neighbor         C. adult            D. stranger

15.A. seldom        B. often            C. never           D. First

16.A. many         B. that             C . one             D. all

17.A. comforting   B. respecting       C. treating        D. teaching

18.A. just        B. yet              C. still            D. even

19.A. force         B. inform           C. encourage      D. remind

20.A. remembers     B. involves         C. suffers          D. benefits