Mr. White was in bed and was trying to go to sleep when he heard the doorbell ring. He turned on the light and looked at the clock. It was half past twelve. "Who can be it at this time of night?" he wondered. He decided to go and find out. So he got out of bed, put on his jacket and went to the door. When he opened the door, there was nobody there. "That’s very strange," he thought. Then he went back to his bedroom, took off his jacket, got back into bed, turned off the light and tried to go to sleep.

A few minutes later he heard the doorbell ring again. Mr. White jumped out of the bed very quickly and rushed to the door. He opened it, but again he found no one there. He closed the door and tried not to feel too nervous. Then he saw a piece of paper on the floor inside the door. He picked it up. There were some words on it: "Now it's after midnight, so it's April 1st. Happy April Fool's Day!"

"Oh, it was the funny boy next door!" Mr. White smiled.

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

1. Mr. White was trying to go to sleep when he heard ________.

A. somebody sing

B. the doorbell ring

C. the telephone ring

D. somebody knock at the window

2.At first Mr. White turned on the light and _______.

A. got out of bed

B. put on his jacket

C. wanted to know the time

D. called the police

3.When he opened the door for the first time, he found________ outside the door.

A. no one B. a boy

C. his friend D. a piece of paper

4.The story happened________.

A. at noon B. at twelve

C. on April 2rd D on April 1st

5.The boy rang the doorbell because he wanted to________.

A. borrow Mr. White's clock

B. ask Mr. White for a piece of paper

C. make fun of Mr. White

D. tell Mr. White a story

根据短文后所给的任务,完成 1-5 小题.

Mary was a little girl and she lived with her parents in Africa. Her parents had gotten tired of the neighbors always complaining to them about their daughter, who was naughty and disrespectful to others. To change the situation, the father told Mary a story of a thief who would come and take away the parents of a bad child to take care of a better child and leave the bad child alone.

However Mary went on with her ways. One day she made fun of an old blind man on her way to school. On hearing this, her parents thought of a new plan.

The next day Mary came back from school. To her surprise, nobody was at home. It was getting dark but neither of her parents showed up. The little girl started to wonder where they were. Suddenly she remembered the story. Mary began to cry, for she thought she would never see them again. While she was crying, the door opened and her parents came in. She ran to them and asked, “Where have you been? I thought the thief had taken you away.”

He did but he let us go and told us to come back home because he knows you are going to be a good girl. He told us that if you are still a bad girl, he will come back for us,” they told her.

“I am a good girl now and I promise never to be bad again because I don’t want him to take you away from me.” Mary’s words made her parents very happy. From that day on, Mary has never misbehaved again.

任务一:判断下列句子正(T)、误(F)。

1.Mary always got on well with her neighbors.

2.Mary made fun of the old blind man on her way to school.

任务二:回答下列问题。

3.What might the neighbors say to Mary’s parents?

4.Why did Mary decide to be a good girl after that night?

任务三:将文中划线的英语句子译成汉语。

5.

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