27. I end up (do) all the work myself.

IV.用括号中所给词的适当形式填空(10分)

26. After taking a shower,I got (dress) quickly.

III.阅读理解(15分) 

When I was young,I liked to play jokes on people I knew,especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking 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 worried and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said ,“Don’t worry. I'm just joking." My mother shouted at me, “If you do it again,I'll hit you.

Another day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning I swam fast and I called out ^Help!^ All my friends came to help me. However,they found that I was joking. But half an hour later I wasn’t joking. I was so fast,soon I got tired and couldn’t swim on in the water. I tried my best to call my friends for help,but this time nobody came to help me.

In the end they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best lesson in my life. From then on I haven’t joked on anyone.

21. When he was young,the writer liked to .

   A. play with his brother

   B. help his mother cook

   C. play jokes on people

   D. go swimming with his friends

22. What happened when the writer was playing with his brother?

   A. He got tired.

   B. He played a joke on his mother.

   C. Tony fell from the open window.

   D. His mother hit him.

23. In the beginning,all his friends came to help him because he .

   A. swam fast

   B. called for help

   C. would sink in water

   D. couldn’t swim on in the water 

24. When the writer called his friends for help for the second time,they .

   A. took him to the hospital at once

   B. came and saved him immediately

   C. thought at first he was joking again

   D. did nothing because the writer had lied to them

25. The story tells us that .

   A. swimming is dangerous

   B. the writer is a naughty boy

   C. one can play jokes only on people he knows

   D. if someone always tells lies,others won’t trust (信任) him

II.完形填空(20分) 

If you wake up on the 11 day of April and feel that the whole world has gone mad,you are correct. April FooFs Day is the day in a year when you cannot 12 anything you see or hear,and probably will not mind 13 a “fool”. Friends play simple jokes all day long. But one of the world's most famous tricks happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938,a radio program 14 actor Orson Welles announced that aliens from Mars 15 on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving 16 the United States. Welles made it so 17 that hundreds of people believed the story,and fear 18 across the whole country. By the time police officers 19 that the story was a hoax,20 people had left their homes.

11. A. first   B. second

   C. third   D. fourth

12. A. know   B. realize

   C. believe   D. think

13. A. calling   B. called

   C. to be called   D. being called

14. A. of   B. from

   C. by   D. with

15. A. landed   B. had landed

   C. had been landed   D. have landed

16. A. cross   B. across

   C. through   D. on

17. A. convince   B. convinces

   C. convincing   D. convinced

18. A. swam   B. took

   C. turned   D. spread

19. A. speak   B. knew

   C. announced   D. remind

20. A. thousand   B. thousands

   C. thousand of   D. thousands of

10. —Japanese isn’t as as Chinese.

—Maybe,perhaps it's because Chinese is our native language.

   A. easy   B. easily

   C. easier   D. easiest

9. The earthquake left people homeless.

   A. two thousands   B. thousands of

   C. two thousands of   D. two thousand of

8. —Show me your homework,Dave.

—Sorry,Mrs. Brown. I've it at home.

   A. missed   B. forgotten

   C. lost   D. left

7. —Can you finish these books before 10 o’clock?

—Yes,I can.

   A. to read   B. read

   C. reads   D. reading

6. They arrived in Guangzhou last night.

   A. reach   B. reached to

   C. got   D. got to

5. The room is full old furniture.

   A. with   B. of

   C. for   D. from