– I called you yesterday evening, but there was no answer.

--Oh, I am sorry. I __________ dinner in my friend’s home.

Prana, our beautiful dog whose name means ‘breath of life’, isn’t with us any more. But she brought such joy and love that we still miss her.

There are so many wonderful stories about the love in this dog, but my favorite is this one.

It was an autumn day in Minnesota, but the weather didn’t know the difference between autumn and winter. Unexpectedly, we were hit with a big snow fall for which no one was prepared.

We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana loved apples. When she went outside, she’d take hold of an apple, put it far back in her mouth, and sneak into the house to save for eating later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house. Feeling my displeasure, she would turn her head so I wouldn’t see her hidden treasure.

On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was madly digging holes and brought the apples to the surface so they could be seen above the snow. I wondered why she was doing this. She seemed to be completely busy with some kind of important task to dig up as many apples as possible during her yard time.

When I called her back into the house, she had her usual one apple in her mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food to live through such an early winter.

1.The story about the dog happened _______.

A．in autumn         B．in winter          C．in spring          D．in summer

2.What does the underlined phrase sneak into mean in the fourth paragraph?

A．enter quickly       B．enter secretly      C．enter happily       D．enter slowly

3.Prana was busy digging up the apples in the snow because________.

A．she liked digging holes and eating apples

B．she was always saving the apples for eating later

C．she wanted to leave the apples to her bird friends

D．she loves playing with snow

4.From the story we can learn that______.

A．Prana is helpful to the writer

B．Prana is devoted to the writer

C．Prana is not only beautiful but also joyful

D．Prana is especially loving and thoughtful

He ______ TV when I called him last night.

完形填空
When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was   1  and I was playing with my younger brother Tony. Suddenly I ran to my mother and said, “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very   2  and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said, “Don’t worry. I’m just   3 .” And my mother shouted at me, “If you do it   4 , I’ll hit you.”
One day I went swimming with my   5  in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning, I went swimming   6 , and I called out, “Help!” All my friends came to help me, only to   7  that I was joking. But the next time I wasn’t joking. I was so   8  that I swam in deep water. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to help me.   9 , they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best   10  in my life. From then on, I haven’t joked on anyone.