Some people have a very poor sense of direction (方 向感差）. 1 . I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there next time.
When I was a little girl, I never dared ask strangers the way. 2. I hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.
Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone asks me the way somewhere, I would say, “3. ”
Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. 4. __ But just as I walked on only a few steps. I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet someone at my office. 5. When I just got to my office, the secretary showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight!
A. | Sorry，I am a stranger here. |
B. | I gave him my usual reply. |
C. | Oh，you ’ d better take the bus. |
D. | Unluckily, I am one of them. |
E. | And I didn’t want to keep him waiting. |
F. | I don ’ t want to ask the way any longer. |
G. | And so I used to walk round in circles. |
阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框内所给的词 的适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。
someone joke | celebrate | how | name |
any fool | different | so | may |
April Fools’ Day is a day to play jokes on others. No one knows 1. this holiday began but people think it first started in France.
In the 16th century, people 2. New Year’s Day on April 1. In the middle of 1560s King Charles IX changed it from April 1 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, 3. others called them April Fools.
Each country celebrates April Fools’ Day 4. . In France, people call the April Fools “April Fish”. They glue a paper fish to their friends’ backs to 5. them. When he or she finds this, they shout “ April Fish! ”
In England, people play 6 only in the morning. You are a “ noodle ” if 7.
fools you. In Scotland, April Fools’ Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool “ April Gowk”. Gowk is another 8. for a cuckoo bird.
In America, people play small jokes on their friends and 9. other people on the
first of April. They 10. point down to your shoes and say, “Your shoelace is untied. ”If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then.
从方框中选择合适的短语，并用其适当形式填空。
run away | take place | find out |
rather than | wake up | more than |
work on | hand in |
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1 . I'11 stay here not three days.
2. The World Cup every four years.
3. He broke the window and .
4. We must what caused the accident.
5. I didn’t until I heard the alarm clock.
6. Mr. Yang is very busy now because he is a new novel.
7. He left his exercise book at home, so he didn’t the book.
8. travel by car, I’ d prefer to walk.