Anna Craig, 11, has a paper doll covered with stickers. Each sticker is labeled with a word such as creative, cheerful, smart or kind. "We choose stickers that best describe us and put them on our dolls," explains Anna. "All these words are what makes me beautiful!" The activity is part of a program called Beautiful Me. The Hance Family Foundation, which was created to honor three sisters killed in a car accident, offers the program for free to schools. The program's goals are to help girls and young women build healthy levels of self-esteem and develop skills for handling problems and relationships with others. Beautiful Me explains that self-esteem means how you feel about yourself and what you think your value is as a person. "Girls of all ages benefit from recognizing what makes each of us valuable and different," says Kate Tuffy, who helped create Beautiful Me. "Our goal is to offer the program to as many girls as possible across the United States." About 6,000 girls have benefited from it due to her efforts.  Beautiful Me organizers train teachers to present the program material to small groups of girls. It includes hands-on art activities, role-playing games about understanding body language and discussions on how to build friendships. Schools and groups present the program when they are ready.   "The Beautiful Me program helps girls understand their feelings, solve problems and get along better in and out of school. Girls and women who have built healthy levels of self-esteem are more likely to be better friends to others and know how to solve conflicts," says Tuffy. Anna says she has learned all of that from the program. But most importantly, she has learned to appreciate the special qualities in people and that it's important to feel good about yourself. "When you feel good about yourself," Anna says, "it is easy to make others feel good, too! Beautiful Me is a program that   _  . A) helps girls feel good about themselves B) tries to make girls look more beautiful C) shows young women how to keep healthy D) honors beautiful girls killed in car accidents
A

Visitors to museums have to pay "voluntary" admission fees, Boris Johnson, the mayor   of London, urged yesterday. He said that encouraging visitors to set a value on museums and art galleries, which have been free since 2001, would work extremely well. Mr. Johnson held up New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as a model. Although New York's museums are officially free, visitors are strongly encouraged to pay a recommended entry fee of $20. At the Met, entry is impossible without first going to the ticket desk.  Mr. Johnson's spokesman later admitted that free admission was a "huge draw" for London, but he said, "Having visited the Met last week, the mayor is impressed by how they maximize voluntary contributions and believes there are lessons to be learnt." Mark Jones, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, told The Timesthat the museum already requested a PS3 donation but was not as forceful as New York's institutions. He said, "I'm not in favor of anything that makes people feel they won't want to go because they feel like they will have to pay." When entrance fees to national museums were decided not to be charged here in 2001, there was a 70 percent increase in visitor numbers in the first year. Political parties have since been unwilling to suggest change, despite concerns about cost. Hugo Swire, the former Shadow Culture Secretary, was dismissed  in 2007 for suggesting that "museums and galleries should have the right to charge if they wish".  Some in the art community argue, however, that free entrance has done little to increase the breadth   of visitors and has caused shortfalls in the budget  for the museums. In response to it, Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business, said that Britain was "leading the world" in allowing its treasures to be freely available. He said, "To return to museum charging would be a return to the dark ages." Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, said, "The mayor showed his true intention when he suggested those who could afford it should be encouraged to... According to the passage, the cancellation of entrance fees to national museums in 2001   _  . A) was changed in 2007 by Hugo Swire B) has been opposed by political parties C) has no influence on the number of visitors D) has caused financial problems to the museums
D

He was an old man who fished alone in a boat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff   and harpoon   and the sail that was furled around the mast  . The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.  The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.  Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color1 as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.  "Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was pulled up. "I could go with you again. We've made some money."  The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.  "No," the old man said. "You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them."  "But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks."  "I remember," the old man said. "I know you did not leave me because you doubted."   "It was papa who made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him."  "I know," the old man said. "It is quite normal."   "He hasn't much faith."  "No," the old man said. "But we have. Haven't we?"  "Yes," the boy said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we'll take the stuff home."  "Why... After reading this passage, we may safely conclude that   _  . A) the old man was insistent and not afraid of failure[ B) the boy's papa had confidence in everything C) the old man caught big fishes during eighty-seven days D) the boy obeyed his father because he had some doubts about the old man

A