阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16--35各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项。 To develop her students' spelling skills,

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16--35各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项。
To develop her students' spelling skills, Mrs Hardy held a spelling petition in her class．The two  16 spellers would pete in the school spelling petition with other 17 from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades．
Spelling was Jasmine's  18 subject and books were her best friends． 19 would allow her to  20 into the sea, find buried treasure, 21 meet the mean man Mr Grandet（葛朗台）．Fairy tales  22 her to dream of being a princess．
The day came for Mrs Hardy to  23 the result of the petition．Jasmine sat in her seat．Finally Mrs Hardy announced that Reece Bradley and Jasmine Russell would  24 in the school final spelling petition．
Smiling  25 , Jasmine looked at Reece, but he  26 her by frowning（皱眉） as if he were 27 to take part in the petition．
“Way to go, Jasmine,” Rashad, Jasmine's another classmate, said with a playful push to her arm．“Do you think you have a  28 of winning the petition?”
Jasmine 29 , “My Aunt Lucy says anything can be got by  30 hard．I'm going to study the word list till my  31 stop working!”
During the break, Jasmine, Rashad and Reece met on the basketball court for a game of Horse．Jasmine said, “Let's  32 for the petition by spelling bigger words!”
“Like what?” Rashad asked．Jasmine smiled．“Like antidisestablishmentarianism．” Reece rolled his eyes and asked．“Anti—what?”
Jasmine  33 the word, trying not to laugh．“You made that  34 ,” Rashad said．“Anything can be got by working hard．This is      35 everybody should believe in．
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