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 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.

1.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

2.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.

3.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

4.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

5.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

1. We all know that Millie has a   ▲   (宠物) dog named Eddie.

2.We are going to celebrate the 90th birthday of our Party on   ▲   (七月)1st, 2011.

3. A strong wind came from behind   ▲   (突然) and we lost the umbrella in the wind.

4.The roads are becoming more and more   ▲   (拥挤的) because of too much traffic.

5.I’d love to join you in the camping, but I   ▲   (允诺) to go cycling with John yesterday.

6.My mother was so tired that she fell a  ▲   when watching TV.

7. E  ▲   fresh vegetables and doing enough exercise will be good for your health.

8.Kung Fu Panda II is a fantastic film and I want to see it. But I can’t d  ▲  when to go.

9.It’s dangerous to run w  ▲   in all directions when an earthquake happens.

10. We are good friends and seldom speak or act a  ▲  each other.

11. My family live on the   ▲   (five) floor of the tall building.

12.Simon and Linda didn’t tell us the news. They wanted to keep the secret to   ▲   (they).

13. Young   ▲  (read) are crazy about Guo Jingming’s books.

14.Listen! The lovely birds are singing nicely and   ▲   (soft) in the trees.

15.Ricky had a   ▲   (please) trip to Lushan Mountain last spring.

 It was the last day of school and I planned to travel to my friend’s hometown. I hadn’t seen him for years and this was a good  36  to meet him again.

I was busy at school so it was rather  37  when I came back home. It was already 10 o’clock at night. Time was running out. After a hurried meal I left.  38  I found a taxi very soon. Asking the driver to drive me fast to the station, I relaxed for a while, imagining what my friend looked like now. I was soon at the station and was sure that I would be able to  39  the train. Unfortunately, I fell on the way and lost some time. To my complete  40  , when I reached the platform, I saw that the train had just left! It was the last train so I had to  41  home.

My mother was glad to see me back as she had a feeling about my trip. But I was unhappy. I tried to relax and went to bed but I had a  42  sleep. The next morning I was very tired. As I was having breakfast the  43  arrived. I read over the pages and was shocked to  44  that the train I missed had had an accident. How  45  I was that I missed the train!

1.A. sign           B. chance         C. sense          D. dream

2.A. strange         B. cold           C. late           D. quiet

3. A. Finally         B. Suddenly       C. Strangely      D. Luckily

4. A. stop           B. see             C. catch          D. miss

5.A. satisfaction      B. hope           C. surprise        D. joy

6.A. call            B. leave           C. reach          D. return

7. A. deep           B. bad            C. great           D. heavy

8. A. newspaper      B. ticket           C. mild           D. train

9. A. find           B. hear             C. feel           D. remember

10. A. hopeful       B. thankful          C. careful         D. painful

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I started high school, I had to stop   1  school because my mother had no ___2___ to pay for my school bills.

We started working in people’s gardens to save up enough money  3  me to go back to school. After some time, I returned to school. Unluckily, my mother died the next year. Suddenly my world went  4 . I asked my headmaster  5  I could work for the school so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me  6  in the school garden during the  7 . I had not been able to study well because of my mother’s  8 .   9  the end of my second year,   I  10  most of my exams and was told I would have to repeat (重复) the year. After  11  summer working in the school garden, I went back to lessons again. But suddenly I fell  12 .

Because of my illness, I was weak and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless. My headmaster told me not to give up (放弃). And my teachers  and  classmates  helped me  a   13  . Now I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.

My life is still not  14  . A few students  15  my poor clothes. They also call me ‘farmer’ because I work in the school garden. But I know I have to do with such problems.

1.                A．to go to         B．going to         C．living in   D．visiting the

2.                A．time           B．money         C．help D．friends

3.                A．for            B．of             C．to   D．by

4.                A．bright          B．late            C．dark D．wrong

5.                A．what           B．which          C．if    D．when

6.                A．work           B．to work         C．working  D．study

7.                A．afternoon       B．holidays        C．night D．morning

8.                A．illness          B．death          C．rest  D．work

9.                A．Near           B．In             C．At   D．By

10.               A．passed         B．went through    C．failed D．had

11.               A．another        B．other          C．the other  D．more

12.               A．tired           B．asleep         C．up   D．ill

13.               A．little           B．few            C．lot   D．lot of

14.               A．the same       B．hard           C．difficult   D．easy

15.               A．laugh at        B．like            C．put on D．laugh